Endangered languages in the 21st century. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Eda Derhemi, Chris Moseley.
• Editors: Derhemi, Eda, 1963-; Moseley, Christopher
• Contents: List of contributors 1. Foreword and Introduction by David Crystal Section I: General state of endangered languages today in some large regions of the world: some good news 2. Michael Walsh: The rise and rise of Australian languages 3. Sebastian Drude, Joshua Birchall, Ana Vilacy Galúcio Moreira, Denny Moore, Hein van der Voort: Endangered languages in Brazil in 2021 4. Hakim Elnazarov: Endangered languages of Central Asia: Challenges and prospects for development in the new millennium 5. Salem Mezhoud: They kill languages, don’t they? - a short chronicle of planned language death in North Africa 6. Mary Jane Norris & Robert Adcock: First- and second-language speakers in the home: an Indigenous Canadian perspective Section II: Theoretical approaches - supporting language maintenance 7. M. Paul Lewis: Sustaining language use: Bridging the gap between language communities and linguists 8. David Bradley: Language endangerment: what it is, how to measure it and how to act 9. Tjeerd de Graaf: The use of historical material for the safeguarding of endangered languages 10. Riitta Valijärvi & Lily Kahn: The role of new media in endangered language communities 11. Eda Derhemi: Examining change in endangered languages with some reference to Arbëresh and Arvanitika 12. Christopher Moseley: Transnational languages in the Atlas of Endangered languages 13. Simon Musgrave & Nick Thieberger: Hypothetically speaking: Ethic in linguistic fieldwork, a provocation Section III: Empirical studies: towards sustainable language maintenance and use 14. Rob Amery: Sustainable pathways for a fledgling language movement: the case of Kaurna of the Adelaide Plains, South Australia 15. Bernard Spolsky: The fate of Jewish languages competing with revitalised Hebrew 16. Peter Austin: Making 2, 180 pages more useful: the Diyari dictionary of Rev. J. G. Reuther 17. David Nash: An unusual kind of loanshift: loan homonyms in some Australian endangered languages 18. Maya David: Sindhi Hindhus – a diasporic community: determining reasons for language shift and aligning it with revitalisation strategies 19. Marleen Haboud & Fernando Ortega: The Waotedodo language and the effects of intense contact Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (318 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 306.44; Endangered languages
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000835496; 9781000835458
• Related ISBNs: 9781032196756; 9781032196749
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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