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Ethnolinguistics

Index of SIL publications on Ethnolinguistics listed by country.

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General works

• Fishman, Joshua A. 2000. "Reversing language shift: RLS theory and practice revisited."
• Goerling, Fritz. 1996. "Relevance and transculturation."
• Hatfield, Deborah and M. Paul Lewis. 1996. "Surveying ethnolinguistic vitality."
• Karan, Mark E. 2000. "Motivations: language vitality assessments using the perceived benefit model of language shift."
• Kay, Paul, Brent Berlin, and William R. Merrifield. 1991. "Biocultural implications of systems of color naming."
• Kindell, Gloria and M. Paul Lewis, editors. 2000. Assessing ethnolinguistic vitality: theory and practice; selected papers from the Third International Language Assessment Conference.
• Paulston, Christina Bratt. 2000. "Ethnicity, ethnic movements, and language maintenance."
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1959. "Our own tongue wherein we were born (The work of the Wycliffe Bible Translators and Summer Institute of Linguistics)."
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1971. "The linguist—and axioms concerning the language of Scripture."
• Russell, Sue Harris. 2000. "Towards predicting and planning for ethnolinguistic vitality: an application of grid/group analysis."
• Wares, Iris M. 1974. "Interferencia estructural y psicológica en la elaboración de ortografías etnolingüísticas."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Congo

• Lane, Bryan. 1989. Toward understanding multilingualism among the Mbete of Northern Congo.

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Harrison, Annette Renée. 2008. Directives in Lingala: participation and subjectivity in a Congolese women's church group.

Ethiopia

• Bliese, Loren F. 1981. A generative grammar of Afar.  
• Hordofa, Kebbede and Peter Unseth. 1985-86. "‘Bird talk’ in Oromo."
• Unseth, Peter. 2008. "Collecting, using, and enjoying proverbs."  
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1986. "Communication breakdown or lèse-majesté: How feudoid subgroups of the Yemma (Janjero) talk to each other."

Ghana

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

Americas

Brazil

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

Colombia

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

Guatemala

• Elliott, Raymond. 1973. "Notas sobre algunas características lingüísticas de idiomas indígenas guatemaltecos."
• Lewis, M. Paul. 1993. "Real men don’t speak Quiché: Quiché ethnicity, Ki-che ethnic movement, Kʼicheʼ nationalism."
• Neuenswander, Helen. 1986. Dualism: a linguistic and cultural phenomenon among the Cubulco Achi (Mayan).
• Oltrogge, David F. 1974. "A sketch of Mayan languages."
• Stuart, John A. 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. 1975. "La etnoentomología de algunas categorías de la orden himenóptera entre los jicaques."

Mexico

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

Peru

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

United States

• Bartholomew, Doris A. 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. 1986. Review of: Hopi time: a linguistic analysis of the temporal concepts in the Hopi language, by Ekkehart Malotki.
• Davis, Irvine. 1959. "Linguistic clues to northern Rio Grande prehistory."

Asia

China

• Long Yaohong and Zheng Guoqiao; D. Norman Geary, translator. 1998. The Dong language in Guizhou Province, China.  

Indonesia

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

Malaysia

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

Philippines

• Elkins, Richard E. 1992. "The Tasaday: Some observations."
• Gieser, Ruth and Joseph E. Grimes. 1972. "Natural clusters in Kalinga disease terms."
• Johnston, E. Clay. 1992. "The Tasaday language: Is it Cotabato Manobo?."
• Pascasio, Emy M. 1981. "How value orientations affect social relationships through language use."
• Whittle, Claudia. 1984. "An interesting geneology [sic]."

Thailand

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

Viet Nam

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

Pacific

Australia

• Furby, Christine E. and Edward S. Furby. 1976. "Garawa compass directions."
• Kilham, Christine A. 1971. "Use of vernacular languages."
• Kirton, Jean F. 1988. "Men’s and women’s dialect."
• Kirton, Jean F. and Nero Timothy. 1977. "Yanyuwa concepts relating to ‘skin’."
• Simons, Gary F. 1982. "Word taboo and comparative Austronesian linguistics."  
• Taylor, Peter and Joyce Hudson. 1976. "Metamorphosis and process in Kitja."

Fiji

• Tippet, A. R. 1986. "Ethnolinguistics and Bible translation. A diachronic case study: Fiji."

Papua New Guinea

• Bolyanatz, Alexander H. 1998. "Where is Claes Pietersz Bay? An episode in the history of the Sursurunga of New Ireland."
• Conrad, Robert J. 1978. "Some notes on attitudes toward language and language choice in May River Iwam."
• Franklin, Karl J. 1963. "Kewa ethnolinguistic concepts of body parts."
• Franklin, Karl J. 1967. Review of: Tongue speaking: an experiment in spiritual experience, by Morton T. Kelsey.
• Franklin, Karl J. 1971. "Practical considerations of folk taxonomies."
• Franklin, Karl J. 1975. "A Kewa religious argot (New Guinea)."
• Franklin, Karl J. 1979. "Interpreting values cross-culturally ‘with special reference to insulting people’!."
• Franklin, Karl J. 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. and Joice A. Franklin. 1962. "The Kewa counting systems."
• Franklin, Karl J. and Kenneth A. McElhanon. 1979. "Bible translation and linguistics."
• Healey, Alan. 1962. "Linguistic aspects of Telefomin kinship terminology."
• Landweer, M. Lynn. 2000. "Indicators of ethnolinguistic vitality."
• McElhanon, Kenneth A. 1974. "Towards a history of the Huon Peninsula."
• McElhanon, Kenneth A. 1975. "Idiomaticity in a Papuan (non-Austronesian) language."
• McElhanon, Kenneth A. 1976. Review of: The tongues of men and angels, by William J. Samarin.
• McElhanon, Kenneth A. 1977. "The identification of birds by the Selepet, Papua New Guinea."
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1963. "Theoretical implications of matrix permutation in Fore (New Guinea)."
• Richert, Ernest L. 1963. "Native reaction as a guide to meaningful translation."
• Shaw, R. Daniel and Karen A. Shaw. 1973. "Location: a linguistic and cultural focus in Samo."