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Language Diversity Endangered

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Trends in Linguistics

Studies and Monographs 181

Editors

Walter Bisang

Hans Henrich Hock

Werner Winter

Mouton de Gruyter

Berlin · New York

Language Diversity

Endangered

edited by

Matthias Brenzinger

Mouton de Gruyter

Berlin · New York

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(Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 181)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN 978-3-11-017049-8 (hc. : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-3-11-017050-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Language attrition. I. Brenzinger, Matthias, 1957

P40.5.L28L36 2007

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ISBN 978-3-11-017049-8

ISSN 1861-4302

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Preface

The present volume aims to familiarize interested readers with the extent

and variation of the accelerating phenomena of language endangerment.

They will find global overviews on endangered languages in chapters

dealing with all major geographic regions of the world. These contribu-

tions provide insights into the specific areal dynamics of language endan-

germent, past and present. In addition, the authors discuss numerous key

issues concerning the documentation of endangered languages. This book

is aimed not only at scholars and students from the various sub-disciplines

of linguistics, but also addresses issues that are relevant to educators, lan-

guage planners, policy makers, language activists, historians and other re-

searchers in human science.

The volume comprises updated versions of presentations from the

Colloquium Language Endangerment, Research and Documentation –

Setting Priorities for the 21st Century held in Bad Godesberg from Feb-

ruary 12 th –17 th , 2000 and sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation . Be-

sides the present publication, the colloquium had a substantial impact on

the genesis of the UNESCO report Language Vitality and Endanger-

ment , as well as the Recommendations for Action Plans . Between 2001

and 2003, a UNESCO ad-hoc expert group on endangered languages

(co-chaired by Akira Yamamoto and Matthias Brenzinger) collaborated

with the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Section in Paris to draft

a preliminary version.

I wish to thank the Volkswagen Foundation for their financial support

in organizing the colloquium. Thanks also to Monika Feinen, cartogra-

pher at the Institut für Afrikanistik, University of Cologne, for her pro-

fessional contribution. I would like to thank Anke Beck (Mouton de

Gruyter) for her sustained support in this enduring publishing project.

Thanks are also due, of course, to the authors of the volume and to all col-

leagues who contributed by sharing their experience in the study of en-

dangered languages. I am particularly grateful to the Research Institute

for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa at the Tokyo University of

Foreign Studies, Tokyo for enabling me to finish the book manuscript dur-

ing my stay there as a visiting professor in 2005 – 06.

Tokyo, April 2006

Matthias Brenzinger

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