Assessing the endangerment of Tamazight-Ayt Ndhir: The role of governmental, institutional and native speakers’ attitudes

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The role of governmental, institutional and native speakers' attitudes by Jilali Saı¨b ''In practice, endangered languages are safeguarded by measures on the part of national and local authorities, designing, funding and implementing appropriate policies.Moreover, in order to be successful and sustainable, all workable safeguarding measures require the involvement of the communities concerned ; no language can be protected or revitalized without the wholehearted support of its speakers'' Rieks Smeets, The Intangible Heritage Messenger, Special Issue, Sept. 2006.The study of language endangerment (hereinafter LE), revival and revitalization has only recently become an important focus of scholarly attention (from 1991 and on) 1 .This has come about in answer to (a) the largely unheeded dire warnings made, in the 1970's and 1980's, by a number of scholars specializing in the study of indigenous, minority and minorized languages 2 and that of language attrition, decay, shift and death 3 , and (b) the doomsday predictions of the early 1990's 4 concerning the fate of the E ´tudes et Documents Berbe`res, 29

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