
Language Death and Language Maintenance
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- LANGUAGE DEATH AND LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION LANGUAGE DEATH AND LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
- References
- THE ENDANGERED LANGUAGES ISSUE AS A HOPELESS CAUSE
- 1 Introduction
- 2 We linguists don't care
- 2.1 Theory
- 2.2 The culture of linguists (as opposed to anthropologists)
- 3 We linguists care too much
- 4 Our non-western colleagues don't care and would be unprepared to help out even if they did
- 5 Conclusion
- References
- THE LANGUAGE SITUATION AND LANGUAGE ENDANGERMENT IN THE GREATER PACIFIC AREA
- 1 General remarks
- 2 The Austronesian language group (background information)
- 2.1 Past migrations of the Austronesians and the history of their languages
- 2.2 Classification of the Austronesian languages
- 3 Endangerment of Austronesian languages (with statistics on endanger ment of Papuan languages where relevant)
- 3.1 Introductory remarks
- 3.2 Taiwan
- 3.3 The Philippines
- 3.4 Indonesia
- 3.4.1 Introduction
- 3.4.2 Borneo
- 3.4.3 Sumatra
- 3.4.4 Sulawesi
- 3.4.5 Maluku
- 3.4.6 Timor-Flores and Bima-Sumba areas
- 3.4.7 West Papua (formerly Irian Jaya)
- 3.4.8 East Timor
- 3.5 Papua New Guinea
- 3.6 Solomon Islands
- 3.6.1 Main Solomon Islands Chain
- 3.6.2 The Santa Cruz Archipelago
- 3.7 Vanuatu
- 3.8 New Caledonia
- 3.9 Fiji Area
- 3.10 Polynesia
- 3.11 Micronesia
- 4 The Papuan languages
- 4.1 Probable migrations and the history of Papuan languages
- 4.2 Classification of the Papuan languages
- 4.3 East Papuan languages
- 4.4 Endangerment of Papuan languages
- 5 The Australian languages
- 5.1 The picture and history of Australian languages
- 5.2 Classification of the Australian languages
- Appendix: The northern islands of the Pacific world
- 1 Japan, Sakhalin and The Kuril islands
- 2 Aleutian islands
- 3 St. Lawrence Island
- References
- LANGUAGE ENDANGERMENT IN INDONESIATHE INCIPIENT OBSOLESCENCE AND ACUTE DEATH OF TEUN, NILA AND SERUA (CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MALUKU1)
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Genetics
- 3 Typology
- 4 Demographic history in Indonesia and in the Netherlands
- 5 Language economy in the Indonesian and Dutch settings
- 6 Language obsolescence or linguistic innovation?
- 7 What to salvage in acute language death?
- Appendix: List of quarters in Waipia & their island and language affiliation
- References
- SIBE: AN ENDANGERED LANGUAGE
- 1 Historical Background
- 2 The Evolution of the Linguistic Situation
- 3 The Present Situation
- 4 Conclusion
- References
- THE GRADUAL DISAPPEARANCE OF A EURASIAN LANGUAGE FAMILY THE CASE OF YENISEYAN
- References
- THE ENDANGERED URALIC LANGUAGES ROGIER BLOKLAND & CORNELIUS HASSELBLATT
- 1 General information on the Uralic language family
- 2 Geographical distribution, figures
- 3 Degrees of endangerment
- 4 Medium Uralic languages: Mordvin, Mari, Udmurt, Komi, and Komi-Permyak
- 4.1 Mordvin: Erza and Moksa
- 4.2 Mari
- 4.3 Udmurt
- 4.4 Komi and Komi-Permyak
- 5 Smaller Uralic languages: Karelian, Saami, Nenets, Khanty, Mansi, Vepsian
- 5.1 Karelian
- 5.2 Saami
- 5.3 Nenets
- 5.4 Khanty
- 5.5 Mansi
- 5.6 Vepsian
- 6 Minor, vanishing Uralic languages: Ingrian, Votian, Livonian, Enets, Nganasan, Selkup.
- 6.1 Ingrian
- 6.2 Votian
- 6.3 Livonian
- 6.4 Enets
- 6.5 Nganasan
- 6.6 Selkup
- 7 Conclusions
- References
- ENDANGERED TURKIC LANGUAGES THE CASE OF GAGAUZ
- 1 The Turkic language group
- 1.1 Genetic affiliation
- 1.2 Geographical situation
- 1.3 Historical development
- 1.4 Structural features common to all Turkic languages
- 2 Endangered Turkic languages
- 2.1 Endangered Turkic languages on the territory of the former Soviet Union
- 2.1.1 Gagauz
- 2.1.2.1 Factors enhancing the decay of Gagauz
- 2.1.2.2 Factors encouraging the preservation of Gagauz
- 2.1.2.3 The recent revival of the Gagauz language
- 3 Concluding remarks
- References
- LOSS OF LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY IN AFRICA
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Situations of Language Loss
- 3 Loss of Diversity
- 4 Genetic Diversity of African Languages
- 5 Isolates
- 6 Endangered families
- 7 Other families
- References
- ONGOTA (BIRALE), AMORIBUND LANGUAGE OF SOUTHWEST ETHIOPIA GRAZIANO SAVÀ
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The people
- 3 The language
- 4 Classification
- 5 Ongota, a dying language
- 6 Levels of fluency
- 7 Arresting the extinction process?
- 8 Documentation plans
- References
- AN ENDANGERED LANGUAGE THE GÙRDÙD LANGUAGE OF THE SOUTHERN BAUCHI AREA, NIGERIA
- 1 Introduction
- 2 History and present situation of the Gùrdù? language
- 2.1 Chadic internal classification
- 2.2 Linguistic situation of the Southern Bauchi Area
- 2.3 The Gùrdù? language
- 2.3.1 Classification
- 2.3.2 Linguistic works on Gùrdù?
- 2.3.3 The language and its dialects
- 2.3.4 Location and statistics
- 2.4 The Gùrdùr? people and their history
- 2.4.1 Migration history
- 2.4.2 Life of the people
- 2.4.3 Clans
- 2.5 Bilingualism
- 3 Factors enhancing language shift among the Gurdun people
- 3.1 Pre-Jihad period
- 3.1.1 Ethnic hostility
- 3.1.2 Natural catastrophe (demographic factors)
- 3.2 Post Jihad
- 3.2.1 Religion
- 3.2.2 Intermarriage
- 3.2.3 Attitudes and integration strategy
- 3.2.4 Minority status of the language
- 3.2.5 Economic change
- 3.2.6 Diminished language loyalty
- 3.2.7 Government policy
- 4 Factors stimulating the revival and survival of the language
- 5 Summary and conclusion
- Appendix: The first lesson of P. Jika Dogo
- References
- RESIAN AS A MINORITY LANGUAGE
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Sociolinguistic situation
- 2.1 Size
- 2.2 Social geography and economy
- 2.3 Political organisation
- 2.4 History
- 2.5 Legal provisions
- 2.6 Status and use of the language
- 3 Prospects for survival
- 3.1 Down side
- 3.2 Up side
- References
- Index of languages
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
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