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Title Language death : factual and theoretical explorations with special reference to East Africa / edited by Matthias Brenzinger.

Publication Info. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1992.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 445 pages) : maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Contributions to the sociology of language ; 64
Contributions to the sociology of language ; 64.
Note "Articles ... based on contributions initially prepared for an international symposium on 'Language death in East Africa, ' held at the Werner-Reimers Foundation in Bad Homburg (Germany) from January 8-12, 1990"--Preface.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Contents ""Contents""; ""Part I""; ""Social contexts of language death""; ""Theory of language death""; ""Codeswitching as a mechanism of deep borrowing, language shift, and language death""; ""Language decay and contact-induced change: Similarities and differences""; ""Part II""; ""East African case studies""; ""The fate of ethnic languages in Tanzania""; ""Language shift in Tanzania""; ""Reduction in Kore reconsidered""; ""Dahalo: An endangered language""; ""Language death and the origin of strata: Two case studies of Swahili dialects""; ""Chifundi and Vumba: Partial shift, no death""
""Lexical retention in language shift: Yaaku/Mukogodo-Maasai and Elmolo/Elmolo-Samburu""""Dialect death: The case of Terik""; ""Language shift among the Suba of Kenya""; ""175 years of language shift in Gweno""; ""Part III""; ""A survey of language death in Africa""; ""Names of scholars""; ""Subject index""; ""Index of languages (and variants)""
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Subject Language obsolescence -- Africa, East -- Congresses.
Language obsolescence.
Africa, East.
Code switching (Linguistics) -- Africa, East -- Congresses.
Code switching (Linguistics)
Sociolinguistics -- Africa, East -- Congresses.
Sociolinguistics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Brenzinger, Matthias, 1957-
Other Form: Print version: Language death 3110134047 (DLC) 92025843 (OCoLC)26254960
ISBN 9783110870602 (electronic book)
3110870606 (electronic book)
3110134047
9783110134049