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Indigenous languages of New Brunswick: an endangered heritage

Anne-Gaël Bilhaut
When speakers are missing… The zápara school in Ecuador

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How to teach a mother tongue… when it no longer is a mother tongue?

Emilie Maj
Siberia: the question of mother tongue

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