The Vanishing Languages of the Pacific Rim
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 April 2007
- ISBN 9780199266623
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages550 pages
- Size 253x177x33 mm
- Weight 1217 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Maps, figures, and tables 0
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Short description:
This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the languages of the Pacific rim, a vast region containing the greatest typological and genetic diversity in the world. As its languages decline and disappear, sometimes without trace, this rich linguistic heritage is rapidly eroding. Distinguished scholars report on the current state of the region's languages. Their analyses range from the regional to the local and focus on languages in a wide variety of social and ecological settings. Together they make a compelling case for research throughout the region, and show how and where this needs to be done.
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This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the languages of the Pacific rim, a vast region containing the greatest typological and genetic diversity in the world. It includes the littoral regions of North and South America, Australasia, east and south-east Asia, and Japan, as well as the Pacific itself. As its languages decline and disappear, sometimes without trace, this rich linguistic heritage is rapidly eroding.
In The Vanishing Languages of the Pacific Rim distinguished scholars report on the current state of the region's languages and provides a critical survey of the current state of the region's languages. They show what is currently known and recorded and what remains to be examined and documented. They consider which languages are the most vulnerable to extinction and what steps that can be taken to save them. Their analyses range from the regional to the local and focus on languages in a wide variety of social and ecological settings.
Together they make a compelling case for research throughout the region, and show how and where this needs to be done.
Table of Contents:
Part I
Mass Language Extinction, and Documentation: The Race Against Time
Documenting and/or Preserving Endangered Languages
Linguistic Fieldwork Among Speakers of Endangered Languages
Language Policy and Language Rights
Using Written Records to Revitalize North American Languages
Indigenous Voices and the Linguistics of Language Revitalization
Pidgins and Creoles in the
Linguistic Diversity in Decline: A Functional View
Part II
South Pacific (Rim)
Languages of Middle America
Languages of the Pacific Coast of South America
Fuegian Languages
Indigenous Languages of Australia
Languages of New Guinea
Languages of the Pacific Region: Malayo-Polynesian
Southeast Asia
Indigenous Languages of Formosa
Languages of Mainland South-East Asia
Minority Languages of China
Japanese Dialects and Ryukyuan
Northern Pacific Rim
Nivkh and Ainu
Siberia: Tungusic and Paleosiberian
Native Languages of Alaska
Languages of the Northwest Coast
Languages of California
Languages of the South-West United States
