In the modern world, there is a steady tendency to study native languages and cultures through education. Most states are multinational; therefore, formation of interethnic relations on basis flexible national policy primarily in field education becomes most important condition for strength state. teaching language, principle local was formulated, embodying requirement teach language. At end 20...

The article is devoted to the study of concept «public association a national minority (community) Ukraine». relevance due process reforming legislation on minorities Ukraine, which one conditions for granting Ukraine status candidate accession European Union. It noted that public associations (communities) are means realizing collective rights as well an external form exercising individual dev...

OBJECTIVES We compared the differences in median age at spermarche among 11 ethnic minorities in 2010, estimated the trends regarding age at spermarche in different ethnic minorities from 1995 to 2010, and explored the association of spermarche with body mass index (BMI). METHODS We used four cross-sectional Chinese National Surveys on Students' Constitution and Health (CNSSCH, 1995, 2000, 20...

Introduction: Although educational attainment is protective against health risk behaviors such as smoking, the Minorities’ Diminished Return theory posits that these protective effects are smaller for ethnic minorities than majority groups. This study compared the effects of educational attainment on the smoking status of American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) and White ...

This paper described recent activities of the Linguistic Data Consortium in the collection, annotation and distribution of language data the developments of tools and standards for using that data, the creation of metadata to facilitate the search for linguistic resources.

Although it prefigures many advances in linguistic theory, the scholarship of nineteenth century scholar Mikołaj Kruszewski is today largely forgotten. In these papers I hope to rectify this situation somewhat by introducing Kruszewski’s insights to modern discourse on phonology. In addition to a detailed summary of Kruszewski’s major work, An Outline of Linguistic Science (Očerk Nauki O Jazyke...

Although it prefigures many advances in linguistic theory, the scholarship of nineteenth century scholar Mikołaj Kruszewski is today largely forgotten. In these papers I hope to partially rectify this situation by introducing Kruszewski’s insights to modern discourse on phonology. In addition to a detailed summary of Kruszewski’s major work, An Outline of the Science of Language (Očerk Nauki O ...

A potentially fruitful area for applied linguistic research is the nature of the linguistic systems used by second language learners as they learn--or even after they appear to have stopped learning. It has been suggested at various times that the findings of this sort of research would be useful not only to language teachers and textbook writers, but also to our understanding of language conta...

As for as India is concerned many Indian languages have become threatened and even endangered because of globalization. In India, English thriving used widely by the young generation, this one reasons leading to extinction native or regional languages. Today Hindi also expanding will extinct. State Meghalaya there are three basic tribes known Khasi, Garo Jayantia. They speak either Garo, but th...