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Endangerment and Language Shift

2021
For several years, linguists have seen a parallel between species loss and language endangerment, fearing a rapid reduction in the number of distinct languages which they argue will reduce human knowledge of plants and other valued knowledge. Others suggest that shift is natural and evolutionary. The chapter gives details of minority languages in India,
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Language Endangerment and Reclamation

Maya Bradley
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Language endangerment in Ethiopia

2023
Abstract This chapter discusses language vitality and language loss and speakers’ attitude towards their language. It analyzes how the loss of little-known and under-studied languages creates gaps in our understanding of human language and cognition. The chapter examines social and scholarly efforts to curb language loss or at least keep
Azeb Amha, Zelealem Leyew
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Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2006
Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance: By David Bradley and Maya Bradley. eds. London. RoutledgeCurzon (Taylor and Francis Group). 2002.
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Language Endangerment

2015
Languages and language varieties around the globe have been diminishing at an astonishing rate. Despite great efforts at language documentation, scholarship on metaphors and figurative units – often particularly fragile parts of language – has been largely neglected until recently.
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Language endangerment and language revival

Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2003
Books reviewed in this article:David Crystal, Language DeathLeanne Hinton and Ken Hale (eds.), The Green Book of Language Revitalization in PracticeDaniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine, Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's ...
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