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Language Endangerment in Childhood

Annual Review of Anthropology, 2019
Language endangerment by definition excludes children and childhood, as the most endangered languages are those which are no longer being used, spoken, or acquired by the youngest generations. By and large, research in this area reflects this exclusion by focusing primarily on the documentation of grammatical knowledge elicited from the oldest speakers
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Language Endangerment in Africa

2020
Abstract As elsewhere in the world, languages in Africa are endangered. The estimates for language loss on a world scale likely hold for Africa as well. Although the particular group of factors at work in Africa may be unique, they come from a well-established inventory familiar elsewhere.
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Reacting to language endangerment

2016
Language endangerment in Africa is of a different kind than it is in many other parts of the world. Globalization and the impact of languages such as English, French, or Portuguese are not a major problem for the maintenance of African languages. Language loss is no less a factor in Africa than it is elsewhere in the world, but the replacing languages ...
Bernd Heine, Christa König, Karsten Legere   +2 more
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Language Contact and Language Endangerment

2018
Language endangerment almost always involves language contact, but language contact does not always lead to endangerment: safe language contact features balanced bilingualism, and unsafe language contact features transitional bilingualism. In safe contact situations, neither of the languages in contact is likely to disappear unless and until the ...
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Language Endangerment in Africa

2021
The aim of this chapter is to lay a foundation so as to  consider the issue of language endangerment in the world. Approximately 30 years ago, various scholars stated that in the worst-case scenario, 90%–95% of the present living languages of the world would become defunct by the end of the 21st century.
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Language Endangerment in the Pacific

Oceanic Linguistics, 1995
Estimates of the number of first language speakers are available for most of the languages of the Pacific. Taken together, these reveal a pattern of size distribution that may relate to the inability of some languages to survive. The pattern is close to the log normal distribution, which characteristically results from multiple growth processes in ...
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Language Endangerment

2023
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Language Endangerment, Language Rights and Indigeneity

2007
Bilingualism, and the ideologies associated with it, are closely tied to social, political and economic circumstances. This is both because the linguistic practices that characterize bilingualism arise out of particular social conditions, which lead people to interact in particular ways in order to live together, and because bilingual practices in turn
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Language Endangerment

2019
David Bradley, Maya Bradley
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Language endangerment and vitality

Abstract This chapter considers the current status of the Bantu languages in relation to language endangerment, which has resulted from the multiplication and resultant contact between the Bantu languages themselves and between them and non-Bantu languages over the last 3,500 years of expansion into central, eastern, and southern ...
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