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" Can threatened languages be saved? : "
edited by Joshua A. Fishman.
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BL
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692288
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b514477
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| Title & Author
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Can threatened languages be saved? : : reversing language shift, revisited : a 21st century perspective /\ edited by Joshua A. Fishman.
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| Publication Statement
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Clevedon [England] ;Buffalo :: Multilingual Matters,, 2001.
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| Series Statement
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Multilingual matters ;; 116
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xvi, 503 p. :: ill. ;; 21 cm.
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185359492X (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 1853594938 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Why is it so hard to save a threatened language? / J.A. Fishman -- Reversing Navajo language shift, revisited / T. Lee and D. McLaughlin -- How threatened is the Spanish of New York Puerto Ricans? / O. García, J.L. Morín and K. Rivera -- A decade in the life of a two-in-one language / J.A. Fishman -- Reversing language shift in Quebec / R.Y. Bourhis -- Otomí language shift and some recent efforts to reverse it / Y. Lastra -- Reversing Quechua language shift in South America / N.H. Hornberger and K.A. King -- Irish language production and reproduction 1981-1996 / P.Ó. Riagáin -- A Frisian update of reversing language shift / D. Gorter -- Reversing language shift : the case of Basque / M.-J. Azurmendi, E. Bachoc and F. Zabaleta -- Catalan a decade later / M. Strubell -- Saving threatened languages in Africa : a case study of Oko / E. Adegbija -- Andamanese : biological challenge for language reversal / E. Annamalai and V. Gnanasundaram -- Akor itak -- our language, your language : Ainu in Japan / J.C. Maher -- Hebrew after a century of RLS efforts / B. Spolsky and E. Shohamy -- Can the shift from immigrant languages be reversed in Australia? / M. Clyne -- Is the extinction of Australia's indigenous languages inevitable? / J. Lo Bianco and M. Rhydwen -- RLS in Aotearoa/New Zealand 1989-1999 / R. Benton and N. Benton -- From theory to practice (and vice versa) / J.A. Fishman.
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Language attrition.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.4/4
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| LC Classification
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P40.5.L28C36 2001
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Fishman, Joshua A.
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