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Cataloguing the world's endangered languages / edited by Lyle Campbell and Anna Belew. - 308 pages cm

Collected research based on information from the Catalogue of endangered languages, available via the Endangered Languages Project website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: why catalogue endangered languages? / Lyle Campbell and Anna Belew -- Naming conventions and challenges / Yen-Ling Chen and Lyle Campbell -- Language classifications and cataloguing endangered languages / Russell Barlow and Lyle Campbell -- Language extinction then and now / Anna Belew and Sean Simpson -- The language endangerment index / Nala H. Lee and John R. Van Way -- New knowledge produced by the catalogue of endangered languages / Lyle Campbell and Eve Okura -- The world's endangered languages and their status / Anna Belew, Yen-Ling Chen, Lyle Campbell, Russell Barlow, Bryn Hauk, Raina Heaton, and Stephanie Walla -- How the catalogue of endangered languages serves communities whose languages are at risk / Raina Heaton and Sean Simpson -- Triage: setting priorities for endangered language research / Bryn Hauk and Raina Heaton.

ISBN: 9781138922082 (hardback : alk. paper)

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Catalogue of endangered languages (Website)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Endangered languages--Electronic information resources.

Dewey Class. No.: 400 / C357