Language Diversity Endangered
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Language Diversity Endangered

  1. 471 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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Language Diversity Endangered

About this book

This book presents a comprehensive overview of endangered languages with a global coverage. It features such well-known specialists as Michael Krauss, Willem F. H. Adelaar, Denny Moore, Colette Grinevald, Akira Yamamoto, Roger Blench, Bruce Connell, Tapani Salminen, Olga Kazakevich, Aleksandr Kibrik, Jonathan Owens, David Bradley, George van Driem, Nicholas Evans, Stephen A. Wurm, Darrell Tryon and Matthias Brenzinger. The contributions are unique in analysing the present extent and the various kinds of language endangerment by applying shared general indicators for the assessment of language endangerment.

Apart from presenting the specific situations of language endangerment at the sub-continental level, the volume discusses major issues that bear universally on language endangerment. The actual study of endangered languages is carefully examined, for example, against the ethics and pragmatics of fieldwork. Practical aspects of community involvement in language documentation are discussed, such as the setting up of local archives and the training of local linguists. Numerous case studies illustrate different language shift environments with specific replacing factors, such as colonial and religious conquests, migrations and governmental language education.

The book is of interest to students and scholars of linguistics with particularfocus on endangered languages (and their documentation), typology, and sociolinguistics as well as to anthropologists and language activists.

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Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Chapter 1. Classification and Terminology for Degrees of Language Endangerment
  4. Chapter 2. Threatened Languages in Hispanic South America
  5. Chapter 3. Endangered Languages of Lowland Tropical South America
  6. Chapter 4. Endangered Languages of Mexico and Central America
  7. Chapter 5. Endangered Languages in USA and Canada
  8. Chapter 6. Language Endangerment in Northern Africa
  9. Chapter 7. Endangered Languages in West Africa
  10. Chapter 8. Endangered Languages in Central Africa
  11. Chapter 9. Language Endangerment in Southern and Eastern Africa
  12. Chapter 10. Endangered Languages in Europe
  13. Chapter 11. Language Endangerment in the CIS
  14. Chapter 12. Endangered Languages of the Middle East
  15. Chapter 13. Language Endangerment in China and Mainland Southeast Asia
  16. Chapter 14. Endangered Languages of South Asia
  17. Chapter 15. Warramurrungunji Undone: Australian Languages in the 51st Millennium
  18. Chapter 16. Threatened Languages in the Western Pacific Area from Taiwan to, and Including, Papua New Guinea
  19. Chapter 17. The Languages of the Pacific Region: the Austronesian Languages of Oceania
  20. Backmatter