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Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2006Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance: By David Bradley and Maya Bradley. eds. London. RoutledgeCurzon (Taylor and Francis Group). 2002.
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Reacting to language endangerment
2016Language 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 ...
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Language endangerment in Ethiopia
2023Abstract 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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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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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, 2003Books 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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Language Endangerment in Africa
2021The 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 Childhood
Annual Review of Anthropology, 2019Language 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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