Language Death and Language Maintenance
Theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches
1st Edition
Published on 13. March 2003
XVIII, 244 pages
978-90-272-7529-5 (ISBN)
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Languages are dying at an alarming rate all over the world. Estimates range from 50% to as much as 90% by the end of the century. This collection of original papers tries to strike a balance between theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches to language death and language maintenance. It provides overviews of language endangerment in Africa, Eurasia, and the Greater Pacific Area. It also presents case studies of endangered languages from various language families. These descriptive case studies not only provide data on the degree of endangerment and the causes of language death, but also provide a general sociolinguistic and typological characterization the language(s) under discussion and the prospects of language maintenance (if any). The volume will be of interest to all those concerned with the ongoing extinction of the world's linguistic diversity.
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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
