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Title The vanishing languages of the Pacific rim / edited by Osahito Miyaoka, Osamu Sakiyama and Michael E. Krauss
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 530 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford linguistics
Oxford linguistics.
Contents Mass language extinction and documentation : the race against time / Michael E. Krauss -- Documenting and/or preserving endangered languages / Bernard Comrie -- Linguistic fieldwork among speakers of endangered languages / Colette Grinevald -- Language policy and language rights / David Bradley -- Using written records to revitalize North American languages / Toshihide Nakayama -- Indigenous voices and the linguistics of language revitalization / Marcellino Berardo and Akira Y. Yamamoto -- Pidgins and Creoles in the Pacific / Sabine Ehrhart and Peter Mühlhäusler -- Linguistic diversity in decline : a functional view / Osahito Miyaoka -- Languages of Middle America / Yoshiho Yasugi -- Languages of the Pacific Coast of South America / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- Fuegian languages / Oscar E. Aguilera -- Indigenous languages of Australia / Michael Walsh -- Languages of New Guinea / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Tonya N. Stebbins -- Languages of the Pacific region : Malayo-Polynesian / Osamu Sakiyama -- Indigenous languages of Formosa / Naomi Tsukida and Shigeru Tsuchida -- Languages of mainland South-East Asia / David Bradley -- Minority languages of China / Dory Poa and Randy J. LaPolla -- Japanese dialects and Ryukyuan / Shinji Sanada and Yukio Uemura -- Nivkh and Ainu / Hiroshi Nakagawa and Osami Okuda -- Siberia : Tungusic and Palaeosiberian / Toshiro Tsumagari, Megumi Kurebito, and Fubito Endo -- Native languages of Alaska / Michael E. Krauss -- Languages of the Northwest coast / Honoré Watanabe and Fumiko Sasama -- Languages of California / Leanne Hinton -- Languages of the South-West United States / Kumiko Ichihashi-Nakayama, Yukihiro Yumitani, and Akira Y. Yamamoto
Summary In this work, the editors present a survey of the languages of the Pacific rim, a vast region containing the greatest typological and genetic diversity in the world. The analyses range from the regional to the local and focus on languages in a wide variety of social and ecological settings
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Language attrition -- Pacific Area
Language revival -- Pacific Area
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
Language and languages
Language attrition
Language revival
SUBJECT Pacific Area -- Languages
Subject Pacific Area
Form Electronic book
Author Miyaoka, Osahito, 1936-
Sakiyama, Osamu, 1937-
Krauss, Michael E., 1934-
ISBN 0191532894
9780191532894
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1281145505
9781281145505