Academic Journal
Future Problems with Misclassifying Unwritten Languages
| Title: | Future Problems with Misclassifying Unwritten Languages |
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| Authors: | Dhami, Amir |
| Publication Status: | Preprint |
| Publisher Information: | Center for Open Science, 2022. |
| Publication Year: | 2022 |
| Subject Terms: | Morphology, bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Linguistics|Typological Linguistics and Linguistic Diversity, SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Linguistics|Comparative and Historical Linguistics, SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Linguistics|Typological Linguistics and Linguistic Diversity, SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Linguistics, 4. Education, bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Linguistics|Comparative and Historical Linguistics, Linguistics, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Typological Linguistics and Linguistic Diversity, bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Linguistics|Morphology, Comparative and Historical Linguistics, bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences, Language Description and Documentation, SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences, SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Linguistics|Language Description and Documentation, bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Linguistics|Language Description and Documentation, bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Linguistics, SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Linguistics|Morphology |
| Description: | In light of classification variation, in which both Glottolog and Ethnologue have separately classified the Bazigar language incorrectly, the lack of a uniform classification system for linguistic analysis creates and compounds the problem of misclassification of language. By avoiding an open-source classification methodology, language classification has effectively become privatized and as a result, rests in the hands of linguistic analysts without worldwide supervision. Such an issue has the potential to lead to the eventual loss of languages that analysts may be unfamiliar with, especially for unwritten languages. Without a global representation of the classification, and thus the misclassification of languages, there comes the threat of declining cultural diversity and a threat to the loss of entire cultures to history. |
| Document Type: | Article |
| DOI: | 10.31235/osf.io/k8jrg |
| Access URL: | https://osf.io/k8jrg/ https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/k8jrg |
| Rights: | CC BY |
| Accession Number: | edsair.doi.dedup.....8ff3e4d45369623352588ea4572fefe5 |
| Database: | OpenAIRE |
| DOI: | 10.31235/osf.io/k8jrg |
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