<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Dear Nigel,<br><br></div>I am not familiar with any such literature (but I will admit that language endangerment is not my primary area of research so there might be someone here who knows about something) but I think that the reason for the lack of such literature (at least in a more visible way if there is any) is that we are just starting to see the effects of climate change on humans (well, beyond floods and droughts...). This article came to my attention yesterday "<font><span style="font-weight:normal">First Official Climate Change Refugees Evacuate Their Island Homes for Good" ( @ </span></font><a href="http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/first-official-climate-change-refugees-evacuate-their-island-homes-for-good.htm">http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/first-official-climate-change-refugees-evacuate-their-island-homes-for-good.htm</a>) and two of the things I thought about were what language(s) they spoke and what would become of their language now that they are being removed from their environment. <br>
<br></div>A little (very little, just Wikipedia-little) research told me that they are Halia speakers and Ethnologue says that the language has about 20,000 speakers (<a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/language/HLA/***EDITION***">http://www.ethnologue.com/language/HLA/***EDITION***</a>) so, although it is unlikely that the language as whole will become endangered as a result of this climate-change induced relocation, their dialect might be. <br>
<br></div>Best,<br></div>Jorge<br><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 7:06 AM, Nigel Vincent <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nigel.vincent@manchester.ac.uk" target="_blank">nigel.vincent@manchester.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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through the effects of climate change? Thanks in advance.<br>
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