Healing through language: Positive physical health effects of indigenous language use
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Healing through language: Positive physical health effects of indigenous language use [version 1; referees: 2 approved with reservations]
This article summarizes existing work that indicates language maintenance and revitalization efforts result in health-related benefits for Native Americans and other indigenous populations. Although forced loss of ancestral language has been a feature of life in most indigenous communities since the first contact with Europeans, the pace of loss has accelerated in the past 50 years. Among the m...
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عنوان ژورنال: F1000Research
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2046-1402
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.8656.1