Endangered Languages in Africa

Edited by: Matthias Brenzinger. With contributions by: David L. Appleyard, Herman M. Batibo, Roger M. Blench, Matthias Brenzinger, Bruce Connell, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Andrew Haruna, Richard J. Hayward, Raimund Kastenholz, Gabriele Sommer, Mauro Tosco, Zelealem Leyew.

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 of the contributors:

Accompanying material:

• Actes du 3e WOCAL Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Africaine, Lomé 2000 (ISBN 978-3-89645-335-8)
• African Linguistics at the Crossroads (ISBN 978-3-89645-120-0)
• Proceedings of the 2nd WOCAL World Congress of African Linguistics, Leipzig 1997 (ISBN 978-3-89645-124-8)
• Proceedings of the 4th WOCAL World Congress of African Linguistics, New Brunswick 2003 (ISBN 978-3-89645-338-9)
• Proceedings of the 6th WOCAL World Congress of African Linguistics, Cologne, 17-21 August 2009 (ISBN 978-3-89645-199-6)

Cross-reference:

• A Comparative Dictionary of the Agaw Languages (ISBN 978-3-89645-481-2)
• A Corpus Dictionary of Vai (ISBN 978-3-89645-176-7)
• A Gawwada Dictionary (ISBN 978-3-89645-494-2)
• A Grammar of Gawwada (ISBN 978-3-89645-493-5)
• A Grammatical Outline of Gùrdùn / Gùrùntùm (Southern Bauchi, Nigeria) (ISBN 978-3-89645-461-4)
• Af Tunni (ISBN 978-3-89645-060-9)
• Bambara Lesebuch / Livre de lecture Bambara (ISBN 978-3-89645-005-0)
• Ethnographie des Sprachwechsels (ISBN 978-3-927620-25-4)
• Ik Dictionary (ISBN 978-3-89645-133-0)
• Sprachgeschichte im West-Mande (ISBN 978-3-89645-071-5)
• Surmic Languages and Cultures (ISBN 978-3-89645-131-6)
• The Akie Language of Tanzania (ISBN 978-3-89645-714-1)
• The Dhaasanac Language (ISBN 978-3-89645-064-7)
• The Kemantney Language (ISBN 978-3-89645-067-8)

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