Langscape

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Langscape is a term and concept adapting and amending the word 'landscape' to emphasize worlds of 'languages' that are locally interlinked with the worlds 'landscapes' (see cultural landscapes) where people locally live, forming and speaking words across generations within those landscapes, being words and languages often particular to those landscapes. Some writers have used the term for slightly different meanings. The term is used by some writers in the field of education. The term and concept first started to be more popularly promoted from June 1996 when an organization incorporated to coordinate partnerships aimed at better valuing, mapping, and conserving interlinked linguistic and biological diversity i.e. Terralingua adopted this term for its members newsletter and magazine Langscape. The term and concept is now also being used by a Language Science Center, the Maryland Language Science Center, for its own Langscape geographical information system mapping language diversity and the accumulated knowledge of over more than 6400 languages worldwide.…

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