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“A language originates at a particular place and diffuses to other locations through the migration of its speakers.” Examine this statement in the context of language hot spots and endangered language hotspots.
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- Perspectives in Human Geography
Language is the most durable and most spatially expressive of cultural traits — it is learnt, transmitted between generations, and carried physically by bodies, so it behaves like any other culture trait possessing a hearth and a field of spread; Carl Sauer's cultural-hearth logic, in which innovations arise in a limited source area and are…
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- The Proposition's Core Mechanism: Hearth, Carrier and Spread
- Hägerstrand's Diffusion Typology Applied to Language
- Evidence That Supports the Statement: The Great Family Expansions
- Where the Statement Is Incomplete: Diffusion Without Migration
- Language Hotspots: Where Diversity Concentrates and Why
- Endangered Language Hotspots: The Geography of Loss
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