27 March 2025 presentation by lead author of the Gaelic Crisis Study
Ethnolinguistic vitality is described by Martin Ehala as “a group’s ability to maintain and protect its existence in time as a collective entity with a distinctive identity and language. It involves continuing intergenerational transmission of a group’s language and cultural practices, sustainable demography and active social institutions, social cohesion and emotional attachment to its collective identity. High-vitality groups are capable of collective action to secure the group’s interests in its intergroup setting, while low-vitality groups lack agency and are prone to assimilation.” (Ehala, M. (2015). Ethnolinguistic vitality. In K. Tracy, C. Ilie, & T. Sandel (Eds.), The international encyclopedia of language and social interaction Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118611463.wbielsi046)
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