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2 - Stages of Language Endangerment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2019

David Bradley  and
Maya Bradley
David Bradley
Affiliation:
La Trobe University, Victoria
Maya Bradley
Affiliation:
La Trobe University, Victoria
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Summary

In the early days of work on language endangerment, many negative terms were used to refer to this field: language death, language contraction, obsolescence (Dorian, 1989); perilinguistics (peril + linguistics), thanatoglossia and necroglossia (Matisoff, 1991: 201, 224). Endangered languages used to be called dying languages or, less negatively, threatened languages, and languages no longer spoken were said to be dead languages. In the last twenty years, we have moved away from these morbid metaphors and the terminology has become more stable, but the situation has continued to deteriorate, even though public awareness of language endangerment and scholarly attention to it have greatly increased.

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Language Endangerment , pp. 14 - 37
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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For an overview of language endangerment processes and comparison of Krauss endangerment scale and the six-point scale proposed by Grenoble and Whaley (2006: 18), see Grenoble (2011).Google Scholar
For a description of the Krauss (2007a) seven-point endangerment scale implemented in a wide-ranging survey of endangered languages around the world, see Brenzinger (2007a).Google Scholar
For a summary of the EGIDS scale and how to implement it, see Lewis and Simons (2010).Google Scholar

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