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Language death

Index of SIL publications on Language death listed by country.

See only SIL publications on Language death available online or for purchase from SIL International Publications.

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General works

• CAHILL, Michael, author. 2003. Review of: Language death and language maintenance: theoretical, practical, and descriptive approach, Mark Janse and Sijmen Tol, editors.  
• DIAMOND, Jared, author. 1994. Speaking with a single tongue.
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1995. Review of: The Celtic languages, by Donald MacAulay, editor.
• GRIMES, Barbara F., author. 2001. "Global language viability."
• GRIMES, Joseph E., author. 1995. "Language endangerment in the Pacific."
• MALONE, Dennis L., author. 2000. Review of: Investigating obsolescence: studies in language contraction and death, Nancy Dorian, editor.  
• UNSETH, Peter, author. 2000. Review of: Language death, by David Crystal.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Ethiopia

• AHLAND, Michael Bryan, author. 2004. Language death in Mesmes: a sociolinguistic and historical-comparative examination of a disappearing language.
• AHLAND, Michael Bryan, author. 2010. Language Death in Mesmes: A Sociolinguistic and Historical-Comparative Examination of a Disappearing Ethiopian-Semitic Language.  

Americas

Brazil

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

Grenada

• FERREIRA, Jo-Anne S.; HOLBROOK, David J., authors. 2002. "Are they dying? The case of some French-lexifier creoles."

Peru

• GIBSON, Michael Luke, author. 1996. El Munichi: Un idioma que se extingue.  
• WISE, Mary Ruth, author. 2005. "Apuntes sobre las lenguas Záparos—familia que se extingue."

Trinidad and Tobago

• FERREIRA, Jo-Anne S., author. 1999. The Portuguese language in Trinidad and Tobago: a study of language shift and language death.
• FERREIRA, Jo-Anne S.; HOLBROOK, David J., authors. 2002. "Are they dying? The case of some French-lexifier creoles."
• HUTTAR, George L., author. 1999. Review of: Trinidad Yoruba: from mother tongue to memory, by Maureen Warner-Lewis.

United States

• FERREIRA, Jo-Anne S.; HOLBROOK, David J., authors. 2002. "Are they dying? The case of some French-lexifier creoles."

Venezuela

• FERREIRA, Jo-Anne S., author. 2009. "The history and future of Patuá in Paria: report on initial language revitalization efforts for French creole in Venezuela."

Asia

Indonesia

• GRIMES, Barbara F., author. 2002. "Kecenderungan bahasa untuk hidup atau mati secara global (global language viability): sebab, gejala, dan pemulihan untuk bahasa-bahasa yang terancam punah."
• GRIMES, Charles E., author. 2010. "Digging for the roots of language death in Eastern Indonesia: the cases of Kayeli and hukumina."

Nepal

• TOBA, Sueyoshi, author. 2000. "The Kusunda language revisited after 30 years."
• WATTERS, Stephen, author. 2002. "Language death: a review and an examination of the global issue in the Nepalese context."

Pakistan

• WILLSON, Stephen R., author. 2003. "National treasures in danger."

Philippines

• HEADLAND, Thomas N., author. 2003. Thirty endangered languages in the Philippines.  

Thailand

• MALONE, Dennis L., author. 2005. "Where do we go from here? The challenge and prospects of language revitalization in South East Asia."

Pacific

French Polynesia

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

Papua New Guinea

• CAHILL, Michael, author. 2004. From endangered to less endangered: case histories from Brazil and Papua New Guinea.  
• CLIFTON, John M., author. 1994. "Stable multilingualism in a small language group: The case of Kaki Ae."