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Endangered languages

Index of SIL publications on Endangered languages listed by country.

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General works

• Grimes, Barbara F. 2001. "Global language viability: causes, symptoms and cures for endangered languages."
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1995. "Language endangerment in the Pacific."
• Kindell, Gloria. 2000. Endangered language groups.  
• Klaassens, Anne. 1997. "Education and development: Is the relationship always positive?."
• Landweer, Lynn. 1999. Review of: Endangered languages: language loss and community response, Lenore A. Grenoble and Lindsay J. Whaley, editors.
• Lewis, M. Paul. 2006. "Towards a categorization of endangerment of the world's languages."  
• Lewis, M. Paul. 2008. "Evaluating endangerment: proposed metadata and implementation."
• Nicolle, Steve. 2004. Review of: On biocultural diversity: linking language, knowledge and the environment, Luisa Maffi, editor.  
• Quakenbush, J. Stephen. 2008. "SIL International and endangered Austronesian languages."  
• Rau, D. Victoria, Meng-Chien Yang and Maa-Neu Dong. 2006. "Endangered language documentation and transmission."  
• Tehan, Thomas M., Kirk R. Person and Suzanne Person. 1999. "Report on the 1998 endangered language conference in Edinburgh, Scotland."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Tanzania

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

Americas

Brazil

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

Mexico

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

Peru

• Gibson, Michael L. 1996. El Munichi: Un idioma que se extingue.  

Asia

China

• He Lifeng and William Tan. 2004. Yunnan teshu yuyan yanjiu.

Nepal

• Morgan, Mary and Deepa Gurung. 2002. "Languages worth writing: endangered languages of Nepal."
• Sueyoshi, Toba, and Ingrid Toba; Novel Kishor Rai, translator. 2005. Diversity and endangerment of languages in Nepal.

Philippines

• Headland, Thomas N. 1997. "Endangered languages and SIL’s role in recording rare data for posterity."

Thailand

• Sunee, Kamnuansin. 2003. "Syntactic characteristics of Kasong: an endangered language of Thailand."  
• Tehan, Thomas M. and Ramzi W. Nahhas. 2009. "Mpi present and future: reversing language shift."  

Pacific

French Polynesia

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

Papua New Guinea

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