Endangered Languages

An endangered language is a language threatened with disappearance as its speaker population diminishes and intergenerational transmission is interrupted or ceases.

531

Publications

28.4K

Citations

879

Authors

393

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

127

Parents

Linguistics

Children

AnnotationCommunity-based Language WorkGrammatical DescriptionIntergenerational Language TransmissionLanguage AttitudesLanguage DeathLanguage DescriptionLanguage EndangermentLanguage IdeologyLanguage Maintenance

Publications

531

Reversing Language Shift: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Assistance to Threatened Languages

James J. Kohn, Joshua A. Fishman · Modern Language Journal · 1992 · 1.5K citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Dialectology +16

Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages

Sonia MacPherson, Daniel Nettle, Suzanne Romaine · TESOL Quarterly · 2001 · 755 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Endangered Languages +9

Language vitality and endangerment

Sebastian Drude · 2003 · 552 citations

Language Studies, English, Linguistics +12

"Expert Rhetorics" in Advocacy for Endangered Languages: Who Is Listening, and What Do They Hear?

Jane H. Hill · Journal of Linguistic Anthropology · 2002 · 497 citations

Language Studies, Communication, Linguistics +11

Co-occurrence of linguistic and biological diversity in biodiversity hotspots and high biodiversity wilderness areas

L. J. Gorenflo, Suzanne Romaine, Russell A. Mittermeier et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · 450 citations · Full text

Natural Resources, Biodiversity Conservation, Conservation Biology +11

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Authors

879

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Julia Sallabank
SOAS University of London, United Kingdom
8 publications · 304 citations
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Suzanne Romaine
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
7 publications · 1.6K citations
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LJ
Lindsay J. Whaley
Dartmouth College, United States
6 publications · 402 citations
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HH
Harald Hammarström
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
5 publications · 454 citations
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PC
Paolo Coluzzi
University of Malaya, Malaysia
5 publications · 156 citations
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Institutions

393

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Venues

International Journal of the Sociology of Language
IJSL · 42 publications · 1.6K citations
26
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Language
23 publications · 1.9K citations
20
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Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
JMMD · 31 publications · 1K citations
19
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Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 16 publications · 2K citations
16
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Language in Society
10 publications · 1.3K citations
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See also Endangered Languages
Revitalization Strategies	Bilingual Education Archiving Language Legislation Mobile-assisted Language Learning Gamification Adaptive E-learning Platforms Crowdsourcing Capacity Building
Vitality Assessment	Unesco Language Vitality Framework Intergenerational Language Transmission
Documentation Methods	Language Documentation Speech Recognition Interlinear Glossing Annotation Multimodal Corpora Finite-state Transducers
Sociopolitical Factors	Language Policy Language Standardization Language-based Discrimination
Digital Preservation	Machine Translation Speech Recognition Artificial Intelligence Digital Archives Tokenization Language Modeling Online Dictionaries Audio-visual Archives Cloud Computing Virtual Reality Augmented Reality Predictive Text Entry Social Media Platforms Adaptive E-learning Platforms