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Language Maintenance and Revival

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David F. Marshall
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Johann Gottfreid Herder illustrated how problematic language maintenance predictions can be with his prediction in his essay, On the Origin of Languages, stating that Hungarian would briefly disappear from the surface of the earth as if it had never existed. With over 10 million speakers today in Hungary, another 4 million outside the nation, and a growing population (Hungarians in the Outside World 1993), Herder's prediction remains hyperbolic, yet it illustrates how dangerous such predictions about language maintenance can be. Hungarian, as with other languages, has been maintained because of forces operating in the unique history of the nation.

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Foundations of Language Policy and Planning
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 14 , March 1994 , pp. 20 - 33
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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