1998
284 pp.
4 maps, 7 figures, numerous tables
Text language: English
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