Language Diversity Endangered

By: Matthias Brenzinger (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 January 2008

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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 particular focus on endangered languages (and their documentation), typology, and sociolinguistics as well as to anthropologists and language activists.

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Preface
Language Endangerment Throughout the World
Classification and Terminology for Degrees of Language Endangerment	p. 1
Threatened Languages in Hispanic South America	p. 9
Endangered Languages of Lowland Tropical South America	p. 29
Endangered Languages of Mexico and Central America	p. 59
Endangered Languages in USA and Canada	p. 87
Language Endangerment in Northern Africa	p. 123
Endangered Languages in West Africa	p. 140
Endangered Languages in Central Africa	p. 163
Language Endangerment in Southern and Eastern Africa	p. 179
Endangered Languages in Europe	p. 205
Language Endangerment in the CIS	p. 233
Endangered Languages of the Middle East	p. 263
Language Endangerment in China and Mainland Southeast Asia	p. 278
Endangered Languages of South Asia	p. 303
Warramurrungunji Undone: Australian Languages in the 51st Millennium	p. 342
Threatened Languages in the Western Pacific Area from Taiwan to, and Including, Papua New Guinea	p. 374
The Languages of the Pacific Region: the Austronesian Languages of Oceania	p. 391
Indexes	p. 411
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