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Coronavirus Health Care Communication in Endangered Languages of Southern Africa ...
Jones, Kerry; Laws, Megan; Biesle, Megan. - : figshare, 2020
Abstract: The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic of 2020 has caused social and economic distress worldwide (Sohrabi et al. 2020). In this wake of new government regulations, national lockdowns and isolation, speakers of minority languages are at risk of being excluded from important health care communication (Sood, 2020). In an attempt to solve this exclusion, the Kalahari Peoples Fund (KPF) initiated an international effort to provide health care information in endangered languages of southern Africa. This is a collaborative effort among community members as well as local and international researchers and volunteers. The languages provided for so far in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa are: Afrikaans, OtjiHerero, Himba, Ju|’hoansi, Naro, G|ui, G||ana, Omaheke Ju|’hoansi, Khwedam, Khoekhoegowab and !Xun. Throughout the process of language material development, it became evident that a one-size-fits-all approach for each language was not going to be feasible nor effective (Hays, 2002). Speaker communities were in ...
Keyword: 111710 Health Counselling; 200401 Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics; 200405 Language in Culture and Society Sociolinguistics; FOS Health sciences; FOS Languages and literature; Linguistics
URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13154258.v1
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