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Language decline and death in Africa : causes, consequences and challenges
The aim of this book is to inform both scholars and the public about the nature and extent of the problem of language decline and death in Africa. It resourcefully traces the main causes and circumstances of language endangerment, the processes and extent of language shift and death, and the consequences of language loss to the continent's rich linguistic and cultural heritage. The book outlines some of the challenges that have emerged out of the situation.
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The Cambridge handbook of endangered languages
Around 7000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This handbook examines the reasons behind this dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why it matters, and what can be done to document and support endangered languages.
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Defying Maliseet Language Death
Published through theRecovering Languages and Literacies of the Americasinitiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Today, indigenous communities throughout North America are grappling with the dual issues of language loss and revitalization. While many communities are making efforts to bring their traditional languages back through educational programs, for some communities these efforts are not enough or have come too late to stem the tide of language death, which occurs when there are no remaining fluent speakers and the language is no longer used in regular communication. The Maliseet language, as spoken in the Tobique First Nation of New Brunswick, Canada, is one such endangered language that will either be revitalized and survive or will die off.
Defying Maliseet Language Deathis an ethnographic study by Bernard C. Perley, a member of this First Nation, that examines the role of the Maliseet language and its survival in Maliseet identity processes. Perley examines what is being done to keep the Maliseet language alive, who is actively involved in these processes, and how these two factors combine to promote Maliseet language survival. He also explores questions of identity, asking the important question: \"If Maliseet is no longer spoken, are we still Maliseet?\" This timely volume joins the dual issues of language survival and indigenous identity to present a unique perspective on the place of language within culture.
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Rejecting the Marginalized Status of Minority Languages
This book explores Indigenous, tribal and minority (ITM)
language education in oral and/or written communication and in the
use of new technologies and online resources for pedagogical
purposes in diverse geopolitical contexts. It demonstrates that ITM
language education transpires in both formal and informal spaces
for children or adults and that sometimes these spaces are online,
where they become de-territorialized discourses of teaching and
learning.' The volume brings together examples of ITM language
education that are challenging the forces that flatten
'languacultures' into artefacts of history. It also examines the
economic and material realities of the people who live in and
through their 'languacultures', or who aspire to do as much. The
book will be useful for educators and all those interested in
Indigenous and minority language issues, as well as for a wide
range of undergraduate, graduate and research contexts where topics
of language education and minority rights are the focus.
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Language endangerment
Up to ninety percent of humanity's traditional languages and cultures are at risk and may disappear this century. While language endangerment has not achieved the publicity surrounding environmental change and biodiversity loss, it is just as serious, disastrously reducing the variety of human knowledge and thought. This book shows why it matters, why and how it happens, and what communities and scholars can do about it. David and Maya Bradley provide a new framework for investigating and documenting linguistic, social and other factors which contribute to languages shifting away from their cultural heritage. Illustrated with practical in-depth case studies and examples from the authors' own work in Asia and elsewhere, the book encourages communities to maintain or reclaim their traditional languages and cultures.
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Language endangerment and obsolescence in East Asia : China, Japan, Siberia, and Taiwan
What shapes and magnitude can language loss have in East Asian endangered languages? How does it differ with regards to the languages' historical development and sociolinguistic environment? This book surveys a number of minority and, in most cases, endangered languages spoken in China, Japan, Taiwan, and Russia which all face, or have faced in their recent history, loss of language features. The contributions in this publication present you with different cases of obsolescence attested throughout East Asia and highlight how this process, though often leading back to common causes, is in fact a multifaceted reality with diverse repercussions on grammar and linguistic vitality.
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Policy and planning for endangered languages
\"Language policy issues are imbued with a powerful symbolism that is often linked to questions of identity, with the suppression or failure to recognise and support a given endangered variety representing a refusal to grant a 'voice' to the corresponding ethno-cultural community. This wide-ranging volume, which explores linguistic scenarios from across five continents, seeks to ignite the debate as to how and whether the interface between people, politics and language can affect the fortunes of endangered varieties. With chapters written by academics working in the field of language endangerment and members of indigenous communities on the frontline of language support and maintenance, Policy and Planning for Endangered Languages is essential reading for researchers and students of language death, sociolinguistics and applied linguistics, as well as community members involved in native language maintenance\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Moribund Germanic heritage languages in North America : theoretical perspectives and empirical findings
The contributions in Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America advance the ever-expanding research program in formal and theoretical treatments of heritage language grammars through in-depth empirical investigations. The core focus on moribund varieties of heritage Germanic languages extends beyond the exploration of the individual heritage language grammars and contributes to larger discussions in the field of Germanic linguistics.
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