Language Diversity Endangered / / ed. by Matthias Brenzinger.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of endangered languages with a global coverage. It features such well-known specialists as Michael Krauss, Willem F. H. Adelaar, Denny Moore, Colette Grinevald, Akira Yamamoto, Roger Blench, Bruce Connell, Tapani Salminen, Olga Kazakevich, Aleksandr Kibrik...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
©2007
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 181
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Physical Description:1 online resource (454 p.) :; Numerous tab. 23 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Chapter 1. Classification and Terminology for
  • Degrees of Language Endangerment
  • Chapter 2. Threatened Languages in Hispanic South
  • America
  • Chapter 3. Endangered Languages of Lowland Tropical
  • South America
  • Chapter 4. Endangered Languages of Mexico and
  • Central America
  • Chapter 5. Endangered Languages in USA and
  • Canada
  • Chapter 6. Language Endangerment in Northern
  • Africa
  • Chapter 7. Endangered Languages in West
  • Africa
  • Chapter 8. Endangered Languages in Central
  • Africa
  • Chapter 9. Language Endangerment in Southern and
  • Eastern Africa
  • Chapter 10. Endangered Languages in Europe
  • Chapter 11. Language Endangerment in the
  • CIS
  • Chapter 12. Endangered Languages of the Middle
  • East
  • Chapter 13. Language Endangerment in China and
  • Mainland Southeast Asia
  • Chapter 14. Endangered Languages of South
  • Asia
  • Chapter 15. Warramurrungunji Undone: Australian
  • Languages in the 51st Millennium
  • Chapter 16. Threatened Languages in the Western
  • Pacific Area from Taiwan to, and Including, Papua New Guinea
  • Chapter 17. The Languages of the Pacific Region:
  • the Austronesian Languages of Oceania
  • Backmatter