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Endangered languages

Index of SIL publications on Endangered languages listed by country.

See only SIL publications on Endangered languages available online or for purchase from SIL International Publications.

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General works

• DONG, Maa-Neu; RAU, D. Victoria; YANG, Meng-Chien, authors. 2006. "Endangered language documentation and transmission."  
• GRIMES, Barbara F., author. 2001. Global language viability: causes, symptoms and cures for endangered languages.
• GRIMES, Joseph E., author. 1995. "Language endangerment in the Pacific."
• KINDELL, Gloria E., author. 2000. Endangered language groups.  
• KLAASSENS, Anne, author. 1997. Education and development: Is the relationship always positive?.
• LANDWEER, M. Lynn, author. 1999. Review of: Endangered languages: language loss and community response, Lenore A. Grenoble and Lindsay J. Whaley, editors.
• LEWIS, M. Paul, author. 2006. Towards a categorization of endangerment of the world's languages.  
• LEWIS, M. Paul, author. 2008. "Evaluating endangerment: proposed metadata and implementation."
• NICOLLE, Steve, author. 2004. Review of: On biocultural diversity: linking language, knowledge and the environment, Luisa Maffi, editor.  
• PERSON, Kirk R.; PERSON, Suzanne R.; TEHAN, Thomas M., authors. 1999. Report on the 1998 endangered language conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.
• QUAKENBUSH, J. Stephen, author. 2008. "SIL International and endangered Austronesian languages."  
• SIMONS, Gary F.; WHALEN, D. H., authors. 2009. Endangered language families.  

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Tanzania

• NICOLLE, Steve, author. 2006. "Review of: The making of a mixed language: the case of Maˀa/Mbugu, by Maarten Mous."

Americas

Brazil

• CAHILL, Michael, author. 2000. From endangered to less endangered: case studies from Brazil and Papua New Guinea.
• CAHILL, Michael, author. 2004. From endangered to less endangered: case histories from Brazil and Papua New Guinea.  

Mexico

• MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 2007. "Bringing it home: the implications of documentation for a vibrant endangered language."  
• MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 2008. The implications of language documentation for an endangered but vibrant language community: a historical perspective.  

Peru

• GIBSON, Michael Luke, author. 1996. El Munichi: Un idioma que se extingue.  

Asia

China

• HE Lifeng; TAN, William, authors. 2004. Yunnan teshu yuyan yanjiu.

Nepal

• GURUNG, Deepa; MORGAN, Mary M., authors. 2002. "Languages worth writing: endangered languages of Nepal."
• TOBA, Ingrid; TOBA, Sueyoshi, authors; RAI, Novel Kishore, translator. 2005. Diversity and endangerment of languages in Nepal.

Philippines

• HEADLAND, Thomas N., author. 1997. Endangered languages and SIL’s role in recording rare data for posterity.
• HEADLAND, Thomas N., author. 2010. "Why the Philippine Negrito languages are endangered."

Thailand

• NAHHAS, Ramzi W.; TEHAN, Thomas M., authors. 2009. "Mpi present and future: reversing language shift."  
• SUNEE, Kamnuansin, author. 2003. "Syntactic characteristics of Kasong: an endangered language of Thailand."  

Pacific

French Polynesia

• RUTTER, Kenji Lawrence, author. 2006. "Going French, going Tahitian: the Tahitianization of French Polynesia."  

Papua New Guinea

• CAHILL, Michael, author. 2000. From endangered to less endangered: case studies from Brazil and Papua New Guinea.
• CAHILL, Michael, author. 2004. From endangered to less endangered: case histories from Brazil and Papua New Guinea.