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Ethnolinguistics

Index of SIL publications on Ethnolinguistics listed by country.

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General works

• BERLIN, Brent; KAY, Paul; MERRIFIELD, William R., authors. 1991. "Biocultural implications of systems of color naming."
• FISHMAN, Joshua A., author. 2000. "Reversing language shift: RLS theory and practice revisited."
• GOERLING, Fritz, author. 1996. Relevance and transculturation.
• HARRIS, A. Suzanne, author. 2000. "Towards predicting and planning for ethnolinguistic vitality: an application of grid/group analysis."
• HATFIELD, Deborah H.; LEWIS, M. Paul, authors. 1996. Surveying ethnolinguistic vitality.
• KARAN, Mark E., author. 2000. "Motivations: language vitality assessments using the perceived benefit model of language shift."
• KINDELL, Gloria E.; LEWIS, M. Paul, editors. 2000. Assessing Ethnolinguistic Vitality: Theory and Practice, Selected Papers from the Third International Language Assessment Conference.  
• PAULSTON, Christina Bratt, author. 2000. "Ethnicity, ethnic movements, and language maintenance."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1959. "Our own tongue wherein we were born (The work of the Wycliffe Bible Translators and Summer Institute of Linguistics)."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1971. "The linguist—and axioms concerning the language of Scripture."
• WARES, Iris M., author. 1974. "Interferencia estructural y psicológica en la elaboración de ortografías etnolingüísticas."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Congo

• HARRISON, Annette, author. 2008. Directives in Lingala: participation and subjectivity in a Congolese women's church group.
• LANE, Bryan, author. 1989. Toward understanding multilingualism among the Mbete of Northern Congo.

Ethiopia

• BLIESE, Loren F., author. 1981. A generative grammar of Afar.  
• HORDOFA, Kebbede; UNSETH, Peter, authors. 1985. "‘Bird talk’ in Oromo."
• UNSETH, Peter, author. 2008. "Collecting, using, and enjoying proverbs."  
• WEDEKIND, Klaus, author. 1986. "Communication breakdown or lèse-majesté: How feudoid subgroups of the Yemma (Janjero) talk to each other."

Ghana

• NADEN, Anthony J., author. 1987. Looking up terms for concepts: INTERCOCTA glossary, a new kind of reference work.

Madagascar

• BOUWER, Leoni, author. 2010. "A bibliographic journey through Madagascar."  

Americas

Brazil

• FORTUNE, David L.; FORTUNE, Gretchen, authors. 1975. "Karajá men’s-women’s speech differences with social correlates."
• FORTUNE, Gretchen, author. 1988. "Indigenous literatures: Oral and written literature and the influence of language borrowing in relation to male and female speech differences."
• JENSEN, Allen A., author. 1985. Sistemas indígenas de classificação de aves: Aspectos comparativos, ecológicos e evolutivos.
• JENSEN, Allen A., author. 1988. Sistemas indígenas de classificação de aves: Aspectos comparativos, ecológicos e evolutivos.
• JENSEN, Allen A., author. Available: 2001; Created: 1988. Indigenous systems of bird classification: comparative, ecological and evolutionary aspects [abstract].  
• WIESEMANN, Ursula, author. 1974. "Time distinctions in Kaingáng."

Colombia

• GRIMES, Barbara F., author. 1984. Language attitudes: Identity, distinctiveness, survival in the Vaupes.
• GRIMES, Barbara F., author. 1985. "Language attitudes: Identity, distinctiveness, survival in the Vaupes."
• KONDO, Riena W., author. 1976. "Onomatopeya en guahibo."  
• KONDO, Riena W., author. 1983. "La clasificación de mamíferos y reptiles por los indígenas guahibo, cuiba, piapoco y yucuna."  
• LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., author. 1976. "Sufijos despectivos en inga."  
• URIBE, Hilda; WALTER, Stephen L., authors. 1978. An application of the semantic differential to the analysis of meaning across language and culture.

Guatemala

• ELLIOTT, Raymond, author. 1973. "Notas sobre algunas características lingüísticas de idiomas indígenas guatemaltecos."
• LEWIS, M. Paul, author. 1993. "Real men don’t speak Quiché: Quiché ethnicity, Ki-che ethnic movement, Kʼicheʼ nationalism."
• NEUENSWANDER, Helen L., author. 1986. Dualism: a linguistic and cultural phenomenon among the Cubulco Achi (Mayan).
• OLTROGGE, David F., author. 1974. A sketch of Mayan languages.
• STUART, John A., author. 1983. Review of: Lingüistica Tupi-Guarani/Caribe: estudios presentados en el 47 congresso international de Americanistas, 7-11 de julio de 1991, Nueva Orleans, Ignacio Prado Pastor, editor.

Honduras

• OLTROGGE, David F., author. 1975. "La etnoentomología de algunas categorías de la orden himenóptera entre los jicaques."

Mexico

• BENTON, Joseph P., author. 1992. Chichicapan Zapotec communication styles and world view.
• COWAN, Florence H., author. 1947. "Linguistic and ethnological aspects of Mazateco kinship."
• CRAWFORD, John C., author. 1964. "Transculturación lingüística y la traducción de la Biblia."
• GRIMES, Joseph E., author. 1960. "Spanish-Nahuatl-Huichol monetary terms."
• GRIMES, Joseph E., author. 1980. "Huichol life form classification I: Animals."
• GUDSCHINSKY, Sarah C., author. 1958. "Native reactions to tones and words in Mazatec."
• HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1980. A note on Copala Trique insect-bird homonyms.  
• LARSEN, Kathryn, author. 1949. "Huasteco baby talk."
• LAW, Howard W., author. 1948. "Greeting forms of the Gulf Aztecs."
• LAW, Howard W., author. 1954. "Formas de salutación del pipil del golfo."
• LAW, Howard W., author. 1960. Linguistic acculturation in Mexico.
• LAW, Howard W., author. 1961. "Linguistic acculturation in Isthmus Nahuat."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1991. "Some Trique grammatico-lexical characteristics: a world view?."
• LONGACRE, Robert E.; MILLON, René, authors. 1961. "Proto-Mixtecan and Proto-Amuzgo-Mixtecan vocabularies: a preliminary cultural analysis."
• MERRIFIELD, William R., author. 1971. Review of: Basic color terms: Their universality and evolution, by Brent Berlin and Paul Kay.
• PIKE, Evelyn G., author. 1979. "Language considerations in community development."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1972. "Morals and metaphor."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1974. "The linguist and axioms concerning the language of Scripture."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1981. "Dreams of an integrated theory of experience."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1986. "On the value of local languages."
• PITTMAN, Richard S., author. 1950. "Viñetas de lingüística."
• TOWNSEND, William Cameron, author. 1965. "El papel de la lingüística en la obra indigenista."
• UPSON, Jessamine, author. 1956. "Some Chatino riddles analyzed."

Peru

• COOMBS, David M., author. 1987. "Diferencias culturales y relaciones inter-étnicas: Quechuahablantes campesinos y castellanohablantes urbanos en Cajamarca."
• DAVIS, Patricia M.; EILANDER, Cornelia N.; PARKER, Stephen G., authors. 1990. "Algunas diferencias entre el castellano y los idiomas vernáculos de la Amazonía peruana: Sugerencias para la educación bilingüe."  
• DAVIS, Patricia M.; EILANDER, Cornelia N.; PARKER, Stephen G., authors. 1990. "La cultura autóctona y algunas sugerencias para el aula bilingüe."  
• JAKWAY, Martha A., author. 1979. "La educación adaptada a la cultura."
• PARKER, Stephen G., editor. 1989. Estudios etno-lingüísticos.  
• PARKER, Stephen G., editor. 1992. Estudios etno-lingüísticos II.  
• PARKER, Stephen G., editor. 1996. Estudios etno-lingüísticos III.  
• PAYNE, David L., author. 1986. ELCON.
• PAYNE, Thomas E., author. 1986. Report on the 24th conference on American Indian languages, December 1985.
• STARK, Donald S., author. 1970. Aspectos gramaticales del español hablado por los niños de Ayacucho.
• STARK, John E., author. 1990. Linguistic trade in: Language change patterns among the Arabela.
• TRUDELL, Barbara, author. 1991. Factors affecting literacy in Spanish and the vernacular among Indian communities of the Peruvian Amazon.
• TRUDELL, Barbara, author. 1993. The dilemma of biliteracy in Peruvian Amazonia.
• WEBER, David J., author. 1987. Estudios quechua: Planificación, historia y gramática.  
• WISE, Mary Ruth, author. 1976. "Apuntes sobre la influencia inca entre los amuesha: Factor que oscurece la clasificación de su idioma."
• WISE, Mary Ruth, author. 1991. Lenguas y culturas: Estudios dedicados a la ciencia y a los pueblos autoctonos.
• WISE, Mary Ruth, editor. 1973. Vocablos y expresiones médicos más usuales en veinte idiomas vernáculos peruanos.  

United States

• BARTHOLOMEW, Doris A., author. 1969. Review of: Studies in Southwestern ethnolinguistics: meaning and history in the languages of the American Southwest, Dell H. Hymes and William E. Bittle, editors.
• CASAD, Eugene H., author. 1986. Review of: Hopi time: a linguistic analysis of the temporal concepts in the Hopi language, by Ekkehart Malotki.
• DAVIS, Irvine, author. 1959. "Linguistic clues to northern Rio Grande prehistory."

Asia

China

• LONG Yaohong; ZHENG, Guoqiao, authors; GEARY, D. Norman, translator. 1998. The Dong Language in Guizhou Province, China.  

Indonesia

• GREGERSON, Marilyn, author. 1962. Initial language learning: a cross-cultural study.
• MARTENS, Michael P., author. 1988. "How big is your rice? Units of measurement among the Uma people."

Malaysia

• COHEN, Patrick D., author. 1983. "Linguistic unity and diversity in Keningau district (Sabah)."

Philippines

• ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1992. "The Tasaday: Some observations."
• GIESER, Ruth; GRIMES, Joseph E., authors. 1972. "Natural clusters in Kalinga disease terms."
• JOHNSTON, E. Clay, author. 1992. "The Tasaday language: Is it Cotabato Manobo?."
• PASCASIO, Emy M., author. 1981. "How value orientations affect social relationships through language use."
• WHITTLE, Claudia, author. 1984. An interesting geneology [sic].

Thailand

• FILBECK, David, author. 1996. "Couplets and duplications in Mal."  
• MILLER, Carolyn P., author. 1994. "Perceptions of ethnolinguistic identity, language shift and language use in Mon-Khmer language communities of Northeast Thailand."  

Viet Nam

• BLOOD, Evangeline, author. 1963. "Some fauna terms in a Mnong RơLơm area."
• COOPER, James, author. 1973. "An ethnography of Halang rhymes."  
• FERLUS, Michel, author. 1996. "Langues et peuples viet-muong."  
• PREISIG, Elisabeth, author. 1982. Relations interpersonnelles dans la famille vietnamienne: Etude ethnolinguistique du système d’appellation interpersonnelle du dialecte de la région de Hanoi.
• SMITH, Kenneth D., author. 1973. "Denasolaryngealization in Sedang folk-linguistics."  
• SMITH, Kenneth D., author. 1976. "Sedang animal folk taxonomy."  
• THOMAS, David D., editor. 1966. Papers on four Vietnamese languages.
• THOMAS, Dorothy M., author. 1964. "Chrau zoology: An ethnolinguistic study."

Pacific

Australia

• FURBY, Christine E.; FURBY, Edward S., authors. 1976. "Garawa compass directions."
• HUDSON, Joyce; TAYLOR, Peter, authors. 1976. "Metamorphosis and process in Kitja."
• KILHAM, Christine A., author. 1971. "Use of vernacular languages."
• KIRTON, Jean F., author. 1988. "Men’s and women’s dialect."
• KIRTON, Jean F.; TIMOTHY, Nero, authors. 1977. "Yanyuwa concepts relating to ‘skin’."
• SIMONS, Gary F., author. 1982. "Word taboo and comparative Austronesian linguistics."  

Fiji

• TIPPET, A. R., author. 1986. Ethnolinguistics and Bible translation. A diachronic case study: Fiji.

Papua New Guinea

• BOLYANATZ, Alexander H., author. 1998. "Where is Claes Pietersz Bay? An episode in the history of the Sursurunga of New Ireland."
• CONRAD, Robert J., author. 1978. Some notes on attitudes toward language and language choice in May River Iwam.
• EZARD, Bryan, author. Available: 2009; Created: 1980. Food and language: an ethno-linguistic study in Tawala.  
• FRANKLIN, Joice A.; FRANKLIN, Karl J., authors. 1962. "The Kewa counting systems."
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1963. "Kewa ethnolinguistic concepts of body parts."
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1967. Review of: Tongue speaking: an experiment in spiritual experience, by Morton T. Kelsey.
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1971. "Practical considerations of folk taxonomies."  
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1975. "A Kewa religious argot (New Guinea)."
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1979. "Interpreting values cross-culturally ‘with special reference to insulting people’!."
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1988. Review of: Speech act taxonomy as a tool for ethnographic description: an analysis based on videotapes of continuous behavior in two New York households, Nira Reiss, editor.
• FRANKLIN, Karl J.; MCELHANON, Kenneth A., authors. 1979. "Bible translation and linguistics."
• HEALEY, Alan, author. 1962. "Linguistic aspects of Telefomin kinship terminology."
• LANDWEER, M. Lynn, author. 2000. Indicators of ethnolinguistic vitality.
• MCELHANON, Kenneth A., author. 1974. "Towards a history of the Huon Peninsula."
• MCELHANON, Kenneth A., author. 1975. "Idiomaticity in a Papuan (non-Austronesian) language."  
• MCELHANON, Kenneth A., author. 1976. Review of: The tongues of men and angels, by William J. Samarin.
• MCELHANON, Kenneth A., author. 1977. "The identification of birds by the Selepet, Papua New Guinea."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1963. "Theoretical implications of matrix permutation in Fore (New Guinea)."
• RICHERT, Ernest L., author. 1963. Native reaction as a guide to meaningful translation.
• SHAW, Karen A.; SHAW, R. Daniel, authors. 1973. "Location: a linguistic and cultural focus in Samo."