28.3336, Books: Africa's Endangered Languages: Kandybowicz, J., Kandybowicz, H. (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2017 11:31:48
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: Africa's Endangered Languages: Kandybowicz, J., Kandybowicz, H. (eds.)

Title: Africa's Endangered Languages 
Subtitle: Documentary and Theoretical Approaches 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/africas-endangered-languages-9780190256340 

Editor: Jason Kandybowicz
Editor: Harold Kandybowicz

Hardback: ISBN:  9780190256340 Pages: 528 Price: U.S. $ 99

Abstract:

Relatively little is known about Africa's endangered languages. Unlike
indigenous languages in Australia, North Asia, and the Americas, which are
predominantly threatened by colonizers, African languages are threatened most
immediately by other local languages. As a result, the threat of language
extinction is perceived as lower in Africa than in other parts of the globe,
and a disproportionate amount of research is devoted to the study of
endangered African languages when compared to any other linguistically
threatened region in the world. There are approximately 308 highly endangered
languages spoken in Africa (roughly 12% of all African languages) and at least
201 extinct African languages. This volume hopes to illuminate and challenge
this trend. 

Chapters offer both documentary and theoretical perspectives, emphasizing the
symbiotic relationship between the two approaches and its implications for the
preservation of endangered languages, both in the African context and more
broadly. Documentary-oriented chapters deal with key issues in African
language documentation including language preservation and revitalization,
community activism, and data collection and dissemination methodologies, among
others. Theoretically-oriented chapters provide detailed descriptions and
analyses of phonetic, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic
phenomena, and connect these to current theoretical issues and debates.
Africa's Endangered Languages provides thorough coverage of a continent's
neglected languages that will spur linguists and Africanists alike to work to
protect them.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Language Documentation

Written In: English  (eng)

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