Endangered languages of the Caucasus and beyond /

Endangered languages of the Caucasus and beyond / / edited by Ramazan Korkmaz and Gürkan Doğan.

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According to UNESCO, it is believed that at least half of the nearly 7,000 languages spoken around the world will cease to be used within the next 100 years. If this issue is neglected, people will lose not only their cultural heritage but also invaluable understandings about the history of all huma...

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Superior document:Languages of Asia Series, Volume 15
:
International CUA Conference on Endangered Languages Ardahan, Turkey)
TeilnehmendeR:
Korkmaz, Ramazan,
Doğan, Gürkan,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Languages of Asia series ; Volume 15.
Physical Description:1 online resource (307 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Consequences of Russian Linguistic Hegemony in (Post-)Soviet Colonial Space / Gregory D. S. Anderson
  • The Contacts between the Ossetians and the Karachay-Balkars, According to V. I. Abaev and Marrian Ideology / Johnny Cheung
  • Why Caucasian Languages? / Bernard Comrie
  • International Research Collaboration on Documentation and Revitalization of Endangered Turkic Languages in Ukraine: Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Karaim, Qrymchak and Urum Experience / İryna M. Dryga
  • Cases-Non-cases: At the Margins of the Tsezic Case System / Diana Forker
  • Language Endangerment in the Balkans with Some Comparisons to the Caucasus / Victor A. Friedman
  • Instilling Pride by Raising a Language’s Prestige / George Hewitt
  • Unwritten Minority Languages of Daghestan: Status and Conservation Issues / Zaynab Alieva and Madzhid Khalilov
  • Report on the Fieldwork Studies of the Endangered Turkic Languages / Yong-Sŏng Li
  • Empire, Lingua Franca, Vernacular: The Roots of Endangerment / Nicholas Ostler
  • Endangered Turkic Languages from China / Mehmet Ölmez
  • The Death of a Language: The Case of Ubykh / A. Sumru Özsoy
  • Diversity in Dukhan Reindeer Terminology / Elisabetta Ragagnin
  • How Much Udi is Udi? / Wolfgang Schulze
  • Language Contact in Anatolia: The Case of Sason Arabic / Eser Erguvanlı Taylan
  • Language and Emergent Literacy in Svaneti / Kevin Tuite
  • The Internet as a Tool for Language Development and Maintenance? The Case of Megrelian / Karina Vamling
  • Linguistic Topography and Language Survival / George van Driem
  • And So Flows History / Alexander Vovin
  • Index.

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