ABSTRACT
Endangered Languages in the 21st Century provides research on endangered languages in the contemporary world, the challenges still to be faced, the work still to be done, and the methods and practices that have come to characterize efforts to revive and maintain disadvantaged indigenous languages around the world.
With contributions from scholars across the field, the book brings fresh data and insights to this imperative, but still relatively young, field of linguistics. While the studies acknowledge the threat of losing languages in an unprecedented way, they focus on cases that show resilience and explore paths to sustainable progress. The articles are also intended as a celebration of the 25 years’ work of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, and as a parting gift to FEL’s founder and quarter-century chair, Nick Ostler.
This book will be informative for researchers, instructors, and specialists in the field of endangered languages. The book can also be useful for university graduate or undergraduate students, and language activists.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section I|95 pages
General state of endangered languages today in some large regions of the world
chapter 4|20 pages
Endangered Languages of Central Asia. Prospects for Development in the New Millennium
chapter 5|21 pages
They Kill Languages, don't they? A Short Chronicle of the Planned Death of Berber in North Africa
chapter 6|20 pages
First- and Second-Language Speakers in the Home
section Section II|104 pages
Theoretical approaches – supporting language maintenance
chapter 7|14 pages
Sustaining Language Use
chapter 11|18 pages
Examining the Role of Change in Endangered Languages with Some Reference to Arbëresh and Arvanitika
section Section III|96 pages
Empirical studies