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Note to moderator: Read the answerline carefully. Note to players: Description acceptable. A scholar coined the term “tarbutomics” (“tar-boo-TOH-micks”) to describe how one of these efforts used eclectic hybrid sources and to argue against “purist” approaches to them. A specific instance of these efforts is promoted by the metal band Alien Weaponry. As part of an approach to these efforts abbreviated “RLS,” (10[1])Joshua Fishman (10[1])created an eight-step process. “Breath of Life” Workshops organize many of these efforts in North America. (-5[1])Jessie Little Doe Baird started one of these efforts in Massachusetts by drawing on a Bible created by John Eliot. Early childhood programs (-5[1])in these efforts often draw on their namesake (10[1])“nests” created in New Zealand. (10[2])Eliezer Ben Yehuda galvanized one of these efforts (10[1])by combining (10[1])sources (10[1])from Ladino (10[1])and Yiddish. (10[1]-5[1])For (-5[1])10 points, name these efforts (10[1]-5[3])exemplified by the engineering of modern Hebrew as Israel’s national (10[1])language. (10[3])■END■ (10[3]0[2])

ANSWER: language revitalization [or descriptions of language renewal, revival, regeneration, reintroduction, resurrection, reclamation, preservation, or equivalents; accept descriptions of preventing language death or of teaching endangered languages; accept reversing language shift; accept reviving specific languages like Hebrew; prompt on descriptions of teaching, learning, acquiring, or promoting a language by asking “for what purpose for the given language?”; reject “language shift”] (The first line refers to Ghil’ad Zuckerman’s book Revivalistics.)
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