Nvshu Case Study

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2.3 Modernization
With the development of modernization, more and more rural people began to migrate to the city. And using dialect frequently is not conducive to promote the process of urbanization. In order to seek better work and learning opportunities, many users of Nvshu give up the inheritance of Nvshu, and tend to use more and more official language and official words. That is really a big problem in the inter-generational inheritance of Nvshu.
2.4 The Policy Reason
Like many other endangered languages, a series of policies of the government also makes a profound impact on the inheriting and protection of Nvshu.
2.4.1 The Poor Protection of the Government
For the protection of endangered languages, the government should undertake
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Mentioned already, with the development of modernization and the Mandarin promotion in the primary education period, the Nvshu users gradually lose the sense of superiority of their native language and began to reduce the frequency to use Nvshu. At the same time, the users have a very low degree of sensitivity to their own language.
They have no consciousness about the endangered situation of their language and they even don't recognize the adverse consequences of losing Nvshu culture.
3. The Measures to Protect Nvshu
Because Nvshu has become a kind of endangered language with high degree, the government and society should take some measures to stop the declination of Nvshu. That may well protect the variety of China and even the world.
3.1 Some Problems to Protect Nvshu
There also exist some problems to protect this kind of language:
Because Nvshu is a specific language relate to gender, it's difficult for the government and society to protect it; the successors of Nvshu lack of language sensitive and language self-confident, so they can not take their responsibilities to protect their native language; Yongzhou county is a place with low economy and knowledge, so the protection of Nvshu cannot be well supported and entirety; Only a small group of women use Nvshu, so it's very hard to form a culture industry and the effect of transmission is so
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A lot of foundations and forums have been founded. Take London University as an example, the Asian-African Language college of London University treats the protection of endangered language as an important work to do. They founded a specific management organization which relies on government fund to help experts and young researchers from all over the world to begin the protection work; some professors of computer major from The University of Melbourne put much emphasis on the process of protecting Nvshu, and they do a lot of works in filing language materials and preservative the data of the

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