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Language Decline And Death In Africa:

Causes, Consequences And Challenges
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Multilingual Matters, 2005 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 174 pages
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
1
Patterns of Language Use in Africa
16
African Languages as a Resource
32
The Minority Languages of Africa
51
The Endangered Languages of Africa
62
Language Shift and Death in Africa
87
Language Maintenance in Africa
102
Language Empowerment Measures
115
References
130
Nationally and Areally Dominant Languages
138
Highly Endangered and Extinct or Nearly Extinct
145
Number of Dominant and Minority Languages
153
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Language decline and death in Africa: causes, consequences, and challenges
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Herman Batibo
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African countries African languages Arabic areally dominant languages attitudes Bantu Batibo become Botswana Brenzinger Burkina Faso Cameroon code-switching Cote d'lvoire demographic diglossic endangered languages endangered languages include English Ethiopia ethnic ex-colonial language extinct languages extinct or nearly favour French Fulfude Gambia guage Hausa Heine highly endangered languages indigenous languages inter-ethnic involve Kenya Khoesan languages Kiswahili 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 pressure 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

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TitleLanguage Decline And Death In Africa: Causes, Consequences And Challenges
Volume 132 of Multilingual matters
AuthorHerman Batibo
Editionillustrated
PublisherMultilingual Matters, 2005
ISBN1853598089, 9781853598081
Length174 pages
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