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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 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 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 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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Language Endangerment

2023
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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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Language Endangerment

2019
David Bradley, Maya Bradley
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Language Standardization and Language Endangerment

Listening, 2016
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Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity

Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Simon Greenhill, Marcel Cardillo, Hedvig Skirgård   +2 more
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The Language Endangerment Index

2018
Nala H. Lee, John R. Van Way
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