Endangered Languages, Knowledge Systems and Belief Systems
by Hirsh, David
Many of the world's 7000 documented language groups are endangered due to falling rates of language and culture transmission from one generation to the next. Some endangered language groups have been the focus of efforts to reverse patterns of linguistic and cultural loss, with variable success. This book presents case studies of endangered language groups from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Pacific (including Bisu, Iban, Iquito, Quechua, Wawa, Yi and sign languages) and of their as…
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Many of the world's 7000 documented language groups are endangered due to falling rates of language and culture transmission from one generation to the next. Some endangered language groups have been the focus of efforts to reverse patterns of linguistic and cultural loss, with variable success. This book presents case studies of endangered language groups from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Pacific (including Bisu, Iban, Iquito, Quechua, Wawa, Yi and sign languages) and of their associated knowledge and belief systems, to highlight the importance of preserving linguistic and cultu.
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- Publication Date:©2013
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- Publisher(s):Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Place of Publication:Bern
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013
Notes
5.4.8. Welsh 98.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (169 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783035105032, 3035105030, 1306561833, 9781306561839, 9783034312325, 3034312326
- oclc:ocn870950138
- LC Classification:P40.5 .E53 H57 2013
- Dewey Decimal:408.9
Table of Contents
Cover; Contents 5; 1. Introduction 9; 1.1. Endangered languages 9; 1.2. Language and culture 10; 1.3. Knowledge systems 11; 1.4. Belief systems 13; 1.5. Language policy 14; 1.6. Identity 15; 2. Language situation 17; 2.1. Scales of language vitality 20; 2.2. Language situation in Africa 23; 2.2.1. Endangered languages of Nigeria 24; 2.2.2. Endangered languages of Cameroon 25; 2.2.3. Endangered languages of Democratic Republic of the Congo 26; 2.3. Language situation in the Americas 27; 2.3.1. Endangered languages of Mexico 29; 2.3.2. Endangered languages of Brazil 30.
2.3.3. Endangered languages of the United States of America 322.4. Language situation in Asia 35; 2.4.1. Endangered languages of Indonesia 36; 2.4.2. Endangered languages of India 37; 2.4.3. Endangered languages of China 37; 2.5. Language situation in Europe 39; 2.5.1. Endangered languages of the Russian Federation 40; 2.5.2. Endangered languages of Italy 42; 2.5.3. Endangered languages of Germany 42; 2.6. Language situation in the Pacific 43; 2.6.1. Endangered languages of Papua New Guinea 44; 2.6.2. Endangered languages of Australia 45; 2.6.3. Endangered languages of Vanuatu 47.
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