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Record W4409317281 · doi:10.3828/ejlp.2025.2

Language erosion

2025· article· en· W4409317281 on OpenAlexaff
Mohamed Jlassi, Hajer Harrathi

Bibliographic record

VenueEuropean Journal of Language Policy · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMultilingual Education and Policy
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGeographyPhilosophy

Abstract

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The current multilingual linguistic landscape of Oman and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is undergoing profound transformations due to economic liberalisation and increased globalisation. These changes are reshaping the social fabric of both nations, turning them into dynamic multicultural hubs. English is emerging as a dominant language, increasingly overshadowing the diverse linguistic landscape that once characterised these countries. This shift towards English could potentially lead to the erosion of rich linguistic diversity, endangering local languages with thousands of years of history. Without urgent and targeted action to preserve, diversify and revitalise these endangered languages, many will face the threat of extinction, while others will be pushed to the brink of endangerment. To effectively address this pressing challenge, there is a critical need for a comprehensive research initiative aimed at revitalising endangered languages in Oman and the UAE. This paper proposes a pioneering research agenda focused on preserving and promoting balanced and equitable multilingualism in both nations. This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/ .

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.053
Threshold uncertainty score0.176

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0060.003
Scholarly communication0.0060.006
Open science0.0020.007
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0530.009

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.450
Teacher spread0.417 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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