Creative coinages also play a role in revitalising the language.
The poet and novelist Ron Butlin, who has himself written verse in Scots, sees Robertson as "a true and active believer in revitalising the Scots language, and not just in his own work.
A Celtic revival during the early-20th century enabled a cultural self-consciousness in Cornwall that revitalised the Cornish language and roused the Cornish to express a distinctly Celtic heritage.
The inadequacy of formal syntax and documentary linguistics in revitalising critically endangered languages has been lamented (Austin 2015).
It aims to revitalise iOS, which has essentially used the same design language since its introduction in 2007, and has taken the approach of "flat" yet colourful design.
"I don't believe Paul Moon's done that here, and I think his views put him out of step with an emerging generation of young people led by Māori who are keen to do more to revitalise te reo Māori while maintaining integrity of the language".
Ill Fares the Land, dictated in eight weeks flat to Rusyn, is a call to reclaim the lost language of government action on behalf of a collective good, and revitalise the institutions of the welfare state.
"If we look to poets for anything at a time when abuse of power goes hand in hand with abuse of language," writes Neil Astley in the Staying Alive introduction, it's for "their vigilance in defending and continually revitalising the language".
"If there's really good documentation, then there's a chance that these languages could be revitalised in the future even after they cease to be spoken," Turin says.
Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring Language and Culture Centre is just one example of many organisations and groups of people around the country working tirelessly to preserve, revitalise and revive our nation's first languages.
