Counting the losses: Numbers as the language of language endangerment

Sociolinguistic Studies

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-26

  Moore, Robert E ^a   Pietikäinen, Sari ^b   Blommaert, Jan ^b  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

African and native american languages; Globalization; Language endangerment and shift; Minority and indigenous languages; S mi

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251639453     PISSN: 17508649     EISSN: 17508657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/sols.v4i1.1     Document Type: Article

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