stats on speakers of dying languages

[John C Rinehart]

At 12:38 AM 10/21/96 +0000, you wrote:
>Dear listeros,
>
>I'm writing a thesis on the metaphor (or not!) between language death and
>species extinction, and am currently focusing on rates of decline and the
>possibility of predicting these rates.
>
>I wonder if any of you might have old copies of Ethnologue or similar=
 sources
>of statistics on endangered languages, which I might acquire through
>inter-library loan or by some other means.  My need is not for current=
 stats
>as these are easily come by, but for older statistics which would=
 facilitate
>a diachronic study.  Can anyone direct me to these sources?
>
>Joanna Martin <Xunaan at aol.com>
>P.O. Box 3785
>Tucson, AZ  85722
>
The _Handbook of African Languages_ series published by Oxford University
Press for International African Institute in the 1950's has some data, much
estimated, some from older sources (some back to the 1920's and earlier).

I have copies of:
Tucker, A.N. & M.A. Bryan. _THE NON-BANTU LANGUAGE OF NORTH-EASTERN AFRICA_
Part III of Handbook of African Languages [HAL], 1956
Basset, Andr=E9. La langue berb=E8re (1969)

Westeermann, Diedrich & M.A. Bryan. _Languages of West Africa_. HAL (1970)

Tucker, A.N. & M.A. Bryan. _LINGUISTIC SURVEY OF THE NORTHERN BANTU
BORDERLAND_ Vol. four HAL (1957)

best regards
John Rinehart
jcrinehart at worldnet.att.net