Just a few entries here taking an endangered language approach...<br /><br
/>McCarty, Teresa L. and Ofelia Zepeda (eds.). (1998). Indigenous Language Use
and Change in the Americas. International Journal of the Sociology of Language,
Vol. 132. Mouton de Gruyter.<br /><br />Nettle, Daniel and Suzanne Romaine.
(2000). Vanishing Voices: the extinction of the world's languages. Oxford. <br
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<br />Be sure to see the archived articles at the Teaching Indigenous Languages
web page:<br />http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/TIL.html<br /><br />Many such more
elsewhere...<br /><br />Phil<br />UofA<br />