📅 November 20, 2023 | 🗣 Pavel Duda (Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích) | 📝 The rise and fall of ethnolinguistic diversity: Why there are so many languages in the world and why they are disappearing where they are most numerous
🔖 ABOUT THE LECTURE
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▸There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world today that are geographically are unevenly distributed. Ethnolinguistic diversity peaks in the tropics and declines with increasing latitude. Language diversity distribution, while not corresponding to human genetic diversity, are curiously similar to those of various groups of animal and plant species. At the same time, many languages are under unprecedented threat of extinction today, particularly small languages in the tropics. A sizeable proportion of global language diversity could go extinct until the end of this century. This talk will describe the environmental and socio-cultural processes beyond the origins of present-day ethnolinguistic diversity during the Holocene, as well as those responsible for the steep decline of language skills and language extinctions today, particularly in the two largest linguistic hotspots the world - New Guinean and Central African.
📽️ ABOUT THE SERIES
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▸The history of Linguistic Mondays dates back to the 1980s and their original aim was to make both the students and the faculty members as well as the wider research community aware of the field of computational linguistics in general and of the results achieved by the members of our team in particular. During the years, with the growing awareness of the domain and with new trends appearing on the scene and with more master and doctoral students coming in, the scope of the topics introduced has broadened correspondingly, covering all aspects of the field from the basics of computational linguistics, its linguistic and formal background through corpora case studies and natural language processing applications such as machine translation and information retrieval up to the most modern trends including machine learning. It is also offers an excellent opportunity for PhD students to present their results and to receive a relevant response from leading experts in the field.
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