Language Decline and Death in Africa: Causes, Consequences, and Challenges
The aim of this book is to inform both scholars and the public about the nature and extent of the problem of language decline and death in Africa. It resourcefully traces the main causes and circumstances of language endangerment, the processes and extent of language shift and death, and the consequences of language loss to the continent's rich linguistic and cultural heritage. The book outlines some of the challenges that have emerged out of the situation.
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Contents
The Languages of Africa
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1 |
Patterns of Language Use in Africa
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16 |
African Languages as a Resource
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32 |
The Minority Languages of Africa
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51 |
The Endangered Languages of Africa
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62 |
Language Shift and Death in Africa
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87 |
When is a Language Extinct?
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95 |
Language Maintenance in Africa
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102 |
Language Empowerment Measures
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115 |
Institutional Support for Language Empowerment
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121 |
The Future of the African Languages
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127 |
Nationally and Areally Dominant Languages
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138 |
Highly Endangered and Extinct or Nearly Extinct
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145 |
Number of Dominant and Minority Languages
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153 |
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African countries African languages Arabic areally dominant languages attitudes Bantu Batibo become Botswana Brenzinger Burkina Faso Cameroon Chad code-switching Côte d'Ivoire demographic diglossic endangered languages endangered languages include English Ethiopia ethnic ex-colonial language extinct languages extinct or nearly French Fulfude Gambia guage Hausa Heine highly endangered languages indigenous languages inter-ethnic Kenya Khoesan languages Kiswahili L₁ L₂ language contact language death language endangerment language group language maintenance language planning language policy language revival language shift languages in Africa Lesotho lingua franca linguistic mainly major areally dominant marginalised medium-sized country million minority language speakers minority languages mother tongue Namibia national language nationally dominant language nearly extinct languages Nigeria number of languages number of speakers official language particularly Pidgin plurilingualism political population prestige role second language Setswana shift and death situation Smieja socio-economic sociolinguistic Somalia southern Africa sub-families Sudan Tanzania UNESCO usually weaker language Yoruba