ISBN:
9781000835496
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (329 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Endangered languages in the 21st century
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Endangered languages
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Electronic books
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Essays
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Electronic books.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Section I General state of endangered languages today in some large regions of the world: some good news -- 2 The rise and rise of Australian Languages -- 3 Endangered languages in Brazil in 2021 -- 4 Endangered languages of Central Asia. Prospects for development in the new millennium -- 5 They kill languages, don't they? A short chronicle of the planned death of Berber in North Africa -- 6 First- and second-language speakers in the home: perspectives on the state and revitalization of Indigenous languages in Canada -- Section II Theoretical approaches - supporting language maintenance -- 7 Sustaining language use: bridging the gap between language communities and linguists -- 8 Language endangerment: what it is, how to measure it and how to act -- 9 Use of historical material for the safeguarding of endangered languages -- 10 The role of new media in minority- and endangered-language communities -- 11 Examining the role of change in endangered languages with some reference to Arbëresh and Arvanitika -- 12 Transnational languages in the atlas of endangered languages -- 13 Hypothetically speaking: ethics in linguistic fieldwork, a provocation -- Section III Empirical studies: towards sustainable language maintenance and use -- 14 Sustainable pathways for a fledgling language movement: the case of Kaurna of the Adelaide Plains, South Australia -- 15 Jewish Diaspora languages competing with revitalized Israeli Hebrew -- 16 Making 2,180 pages more useful: the Diyari dictionary of Rev. J. G. Reuther -- 17 A note on an Australian homophone loanshift -- 18 Sindhi Hindus, a diasporic community: reasons for shift and revitalisation strategies -- 19 Linguistic diversity endangered: the Waotededo language and the effects of intense contact.
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