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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2017

Anne Kruijt  and
Mark Turin
Anne Kruijt
Affiliation:
Centre of Linguistics, Leiden University, Leiden, 2311 BX, The Netherlandsa.kruijt@umail.leidenuniv.nl
Mark Turin
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canadamark.turin@ubc.ca
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In response to a crescendo of public and scholarly interest, over the last two decades there has been a noticeable and mostly welcome surge in publications that focus on language documentation, conservation, and revitalization. Early and high impact contributions in Hale et al. (1992) included a now seminal article by Michael Krauss which called for urgent action to prevent linguistics from going down in history as the ‘only science that presided obliviously over the disappearance of 90% of the very field to which it is dedicated’ (Krauss 1992:10). There then followed a discussion on the topic by Ladefoged (1992) and a prompt reply by Dorian (1993) that situated the issue of language endangerment as one deserving of sustained academic attention. Alongside swelling bookshelves that speak to the urgency of this work, major research programs funded by private philanthropic organizations and research councils were also being established at this time. The Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) was founded in 1995, followed a year later by the Endangered Language Fund (ELF). With the establishment of the Dokumentation Bedrohter Sprachen program (DoBeS) in 2000, the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project (HRELP) in 2002, and the Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) program funded by the US government in 2005, the last two decades bear witness to a steady increase in support, funding, and visibility for the documentation and preservation of endangered languages.

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Language in Society , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , April 2017 , pp. 257 - 269
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