Language loss of the indigenous

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Introduction:
Aphasia: The Fate of the Indigenous Languages
1. Symbolic Power, Nation State and Indigenous Language: A Sociological Analysis of Tribes in Central India;
2. Text, Subtext and Context of Indian Culture in the Developmental Paradigm of Globalization;
3. Adivasi Art: The Convergence of the Intangible and the Tangible;
4. Aesthetics of Representation: Media and Canadian Aboriginal Resistance;
5. The Forgotten Tribe - The Kuravars of Tamil Nadu;
6. Tesu and Jhenjhi: A festival celebrating cultural life;
7. Articulating Tribal Culture: The Oral Tradition of Lambadas;
8. Micro and macro intergenerational oral communication in the Zion Christian Church;
9. Sacred Places as Traditional Heritage for the Vhavenda Indigenous Community of Limpopo Province, South Africa;
10. Translating Power, Gender and Caste: Negotiating Identity, Memory and History: A Study of Bama's Sangati;
11. Historiography or Imagination? The Documentation of Traditional Luo Cultural Memory in Kenyan Fiction;
12. Tackling Endangered Languages in the Midst of Diversity Lachman;
13. Language Shift among the Wader Speakers;;;
14. towards a Revitalization of Urho: An Endangered Language of Delta State, Nigeria;
15. Its Ekiri: Threatened and Endangered;
16. Written Kikuyu as an Under-Developed Language Form: Evidence from an Exploration of its Phonology and Orthography;
17. Endangered! The Igbo Language Dilemma in Nigeria;
18. Aspects of Discourse Structure: A Case of Particles;
19. Mobile Telephone Communication and the Akan Language Glossary;
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