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Lindstrom, Eva – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2005
Kuot is a language in a critical situation. Most adults of lower middle age and older are full speakers but children are not learning it. In other words, it will become extinct in a few decades if nothing is done; but it is not too late if the community decides to turn it around, and do so fast. Thus far, the community has shown little interest.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Language Maintenance