Endangered Languages
Published on 31. October 1991
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-85496-313-3 (ISBN)
Description
The collection of articles in this volume shows that the extinction of languages is a world-wide phenomenon. Smaller languages are giving way everywhere to pressure of official, dominant languages. The extinction of languages affects the empirical basis of linguistic science and in particular of historical and typological studies. There is a growing awareness among linguists that steps must be taken with regard to this rapid decline, and this volume represents an important step towards recording the grammar, lexicon and oral literature of languages which are on the verge of extinction.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
tables, figures, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85496-313-3 (9780854963133)
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Content
Language death and disappearance, causes and circumstances, S.A.Wurm; language death in Africa, M.Brenzinger, et al; the endangered languages problem - South America, F.H.Adelaar; endangered languages in Mexico, B.Garza-Cuaron and Y.Lastra; the condition of native American languages in the United States, J.H.Jill and O.Zepeda; the decline of native languages in Canada, M.Dale Kinkade; an appraisal of Indian languages and their vitality rating, B.P.Mahapatra; endangered languages of mainlang Southeast Asia, J.A.Matisoff; Australia, Indonesia and Oceania, R.M.W.Dixon; the problem of endangered languages in the U.S.S.R., A.E.Kibrik.