This volume contains selected papers which are based on presentations held on the Symposium on Endangered Languages in Africa from 29 July to 1 August 1997 at the University of Leipzig/Germany. The workshop took place parallel to the 2nd WOCAL World Congress of African Linguistics (see the link below).
CONTENTS
Matthias Brenzinger: Endangered Languages and Language Endangerment in Africa – Introduction
Richard J. Hayward: The Endangered Languages of Ethiopia – What’s at Stake for the Linguist?
Gabriele Sommer: Reconstructing the Past – Historical Linguistics, Contact-induced Change, Language Shift and Relexification
Gerrit Dimmendaal: Language Contraction versus other Types of Contact-induced Change
Mauro Tosco: “People who are not the language they speak” – On Language Shift without Language Decay in East Africa
David L. Appleyard: Language Death – The Case of Qwarenya (Ethiopia)
Zelealem Leyew: Some Structural Signs of Obsolescence in K’emant
Roger Blench: The Status of the Languages of Central Nigeria
Bruce Connell: Moribund Languages of the Nigeria-Cameroon Borderland
Andrew Haruna: Language Death – The Case of Bubburè in Southern Bauchi Area, Northern Nigeria
Raimund Kastenholz: Language Shift and Language Death among Mande Blacksmiths and Leatherworkers in the Diaspora
Herman Batibo: The Fate of the Khoesan Languages of Botswana
Under these links you will find further proceedings volumes of the WOCAL World Congress of African Linguistics and publications by the contributors:
Richard Wright in The Endangered Language Fund Newsletter, 3(2)/1999, 1
Thus the publication “Endangered Languages in Africa” covers a broad spectrum of the African Zeitgeist and links the peoples of this continent to people in other parts of the world where similar phenomena are taking place as part of a world-wide tendency. At the same time, the papers have to be accepted as an important input into operational research which responsible governmental agencies of the relevant countries should take seriously when considering language planning.
Rajmund Ohly in Afrika und Übersee, 83/2000, 154-155
Lenore A. Grenoble in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 21(2)/2000, 157-159
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