Ethical issues in linguistic fieldwork have received surprisingly little direct attention in recent
years. This article reviews ethical models for fieldwork and outlines the responsibilities of …

Much attention has been focused on the survival of Indigenous languages in recent years.
Many, particularly anthropologists and linguists, anticipate the demise of the majority of …

The rapid endangerment and death of many minority languages across the world is a matter
of widespread concern, not only among linguists and anthropologists but among all …

The next century will see more than half of the world's 6,000 languages become extinct, and
most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the …

The Basque language, Euskara, is one of Europe's most ancient tongues and a vital part of
today's lively Basque culture. Reclaiming Basque examines the ideology, methods, and …

Although spoken by a relatively large population, Mayan languages show signs of language
shift and loss because the children in some of the speech communities are no longer …

Reversing language shift in the far North : linguistic revitalization in Northern Scandinavia
and Finland diva-portal.org Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet Simple search Advanced search …

Quechua is a threatened language (Dorian, 1998: 4). Yet with 8 to 12 million speakers
(Grinevald, 1998: 128), most of them concentrated in the Andean highlands of Peru, Bolivia …

Language documentation, also often called documentary linguistics, is a relatively new
subfield in linguistics which has emerged in part as a response to the pressing need for …

Of the estimated 300 million indigenous persons that survive to date in the world, between
40 and 50 million live in Latin America. There are indigenous people in every country …