The world's languages in crisis: A 20-year update

[Dave Pearson]

The world's languages in crisis: A 20-year update by Paul Lewis and Gary
Simons

 

"The world's languages in crisis" (Krauss 1992) ... surveyed the global
situation and estimated that only 10% of languages seem safe in the long
term, up to 50% may already be moribund, and the remainder are in danger of
becoming moribund by the end of this century. Twenty years later, better
information is available. In this paper we use information from the latest
edition of the Ethnologue (Lewis 2009), plus information being gathered for
the next edition, to offer an update to the global statistics on language
viability."

 

http://www.sil.org/~simonsg/preprint/Wisconsin%20Symposium.pdf

 

 

Dave Pearson

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