Talk:Heritage language

This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Sociology Low‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Sociology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of sociology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SociologyWikipedia:WikiProject SociologyTemplate:WikiProject Sociologysociology articles Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. Linguistics Low‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Linguistics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of linguistics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.LinguisticsWikipedia:WikiProject LinguisticsTemplate:WikiProject LinguisticsLinguistics articles Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. ethnic groups, nationalities, and other cultural identities on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Ethnic groupsWikipedia:WikiProject Ethnic groupsTemplate:WikiProject Ethnic groupsEthnic groups articles Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. WikiProject Ethnic groups open tasks: Here are some open WikiProject Ethnic groups tasks: Meta-tasks: Place the {{ Ethnic groups }} template on the talk page of articles within the scope of this project. Resolve the disparity in importance rankings among different ethnic groups Articles about ethnic groups that currently have issues needing resolution: Category:Unassessed Ethnic groups articles Category:Ethnic groups articles needing merge action Category:Ethnic groups articles needing infoboxes Category:Ethnic groups articles needing reassessment Category:Ethnic groups articles needing attention Iyer Peruvian people Start an article: Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethnic groups/Article requests Feel free to edit this list or discuss these tasks.

Psychology Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Psychology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Psychology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PsychologyWikipedia:WikiProject PsychologyTemplate:WikiProject Psychologypsychology articles Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

The right to receive free education in one's home language is law in parts of Europe, especially the Nordic countries. Is that a fact? I highly doubt it. Which laws state this? --::Slomox:: >< 12:03, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Overall, the article looks really good. I'm not sure what "interlocutors" (used in the definitions section) means, though. Could you possible link this to a relevant page? I also noticed an area which still had heavy use of academic terms possibly not known to the wider public ("The results of these changes can be seen in divergence of the heritage language from monolingual norms in the areas of phonology, lexical knowledge, morphology, syntax, semantic and code-switching.") I would think either linking to relevant articles which explains these terms or re-wording this section would be a good idea. (Flyingcat21 (talk) 18:31, 9 August 2014 (UTC))[reply]

I fixed "interlocutors" to easy words, and linked to the pages for each vocabularies. Thank you for your comment! (Naohashi (talk) 14:31, 12 August 2014 (UTC))[reply]

Possible suggestions:

Add a short one or two sentence definition at the beginning before the contents box.

I'm confused what a nonsocietal minority is. It might be too academic of a term. Possibly link or explain.

It might be smoother to cut out the "minority languages or" part of the second sentence because it feels a little confusing after the first.

Second paragraph looks great!

FrancesChapman (talk) 18:31, 9 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This is a really fascinating article and I enjoyed reading it, especially because there is so much about heritage languages that ties in nicely with language acquisition (what goes on in the brain when we learn languages). As informative as both of the sections were, it seemed like the material could be organized a little better, especially in the 'Definitions' portion. It seems as though the only paragraphs that discuss alternate definitions of 'heritage language' are the second and the third. The fourth paragraph seems to be an extension on the third, but delves a lot more into the area of language acquisition. But don't take it out altogether, it's really interesting! What you should do instead is perhaps move it down into the 'Proficiency' section, because it seems to belong better there (since you are no longer writing about debatable definitions). At least in my opinion. It also might be handy to add an introduction paragraph in case anyone were looking for a brief and concise description of what a heritage language is.

--Bondjamesbondjamesbond (talk) 21:21, 9 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's ridiculous to have a big header for a two-sentence section. This should either be expanded or merged with another section.Cam.wieland (talk) 08:30, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I added"a new section for "External links" with links to sites for two scholarly journals on heritage languages and to the site of the UCLA-based NHLRC. The two journal links might be reformulated and moved to the "Further reading" section. The NHLRC probably should have a page of its own.--A12n (talk) 15:34, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed the lack of parallelism in the Polinsky quote, and sure enough, they don't discuss Tamil in their original work, so it is a misquote. Work "Tamil" should be deleted to make the quote accurate.

That being said, I'd rather not erase Tamil from this article without discussion. Unfortunately it is far afield from my subject domain. So I wouldn't know where to look for a good source. JRDWood (talk) 21:15, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]