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Language maintenance

Index of SIL publications on Language maintenance listed by country.

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

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General works

• CAHILL, Michael, author. 2005. Review of: Spoken here: travels among threatened languages, by Mark Abley.
• KARAN, Mark E., author. 2008. The importance of motivations in language revitalization.
• LEWIS, M. Paul, author. 2008. "Evaluating endangerment: proposed metadata and implementation."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Botswana

• VISSER, Hessel, author. Available: 2010; Created: 1998-03. Language and cultural empowerment of the Khoesan people: the Naro experience.

Cameroon

• TRUDELL, Barbara, author. 2004. The power of the local: education choices and language maintenance among the Bafut, Kom and Nso' communities of Northwest Cameroon.  
• TRUDELL, Barbara, author. 2006. "Local agency in the development of minority languages: three language committees in Northwest Cameroon."
• TRUDELL, Barbara, author. 2008. "Language, literacy and equality: minority language communities in the Cameroon."

Ghana

• HASSELBRING, Sue, author. 2006. Cross-dialectal acceptance of written standards: two Ghanaian case studies.  

Kenya

• NICOLLE, Steve, author. 2004. "The relevance of ethnobotanical studies in linguistic vitality: the case of plant use and classification among the Digo of Kenya."

Tanzania

• STEGEN, Oliver, author. 2003. "If you've got a mother tongue, please use it!": Minority language development: the case of Rangi.  

Americas

Brazil

• ANONBY, Sandy; ANONBY, Stan, authors. 2004. "A report on Xokleng language maintenance."  
• MURPHY, Isabel I.; VENCIO, Elizabeth, authors. 2009. "Maintaining two worlds: the relevance of mother tongue in Brazil's Amerindian societies."

Canada

• ISARA Choosri; MALONE, Dennis L., authors. 2007. "Stabilizing indigenous languages, a Symposium report."  

United States

• ISARA Choosri; MALONE, Dennis L., authors. 2007. "Stabilizing indigenous languages, a Symposium report."  

Asia

Azerbaijan

• CLIFTON, John M., author. 2009. Do the Talysh and Tat languages have a future in Azerbaijan?.  

China

• LAI, Daisy Ching-Ju, author. 2007. The relationship between Shui literacy and the maintenance of Shui culture.

Laos

• MILLER, Carolyn P., author. 1996. "Application of typologies for language maintenance and loss to Southeast Asian linguistic minorities: the case of the Bru-So and Kadazan-Dusun language continua."

Malaysia

• MILLER, Carolyn P., author. 1996. "Application of typologies for language maintenance and loss to Southeast Asian linguistic minorities: the case of the Bru-So and Kadazan-Dusun language continua."
• NOEB, Jonas; RENSCH, Calvin R.; RENSCH, Carolyn M.; RIDU, Robert Sulis, authors. 2006. The Bidayuh language: yesterday, today and tomorrow.
• SMITH, Karla J., author. 2003. "Minority language education in Malaysia: four ethnic communities' experiences."
• SMITH, Karla J., author. 2008. Language and decisions: the Iranun of Sabah, Malaysia.

Pakistan

• BAART, Joan L. G., author. 2003. "Sustainable development and the maintenance of Pakistan's indigenous languages."

Philippines

• TAJOLOSA, Teresita D., author. 2006. "Tagbanua language in Irawan: in the midst of globalization."  

Tajikistan

• ABBESS, Elisabeth; MÜLLER, Katja; PAUL, Daniel; TIESSEN, Calvin; TIESSEN, Gabriela, authors. 2005. "Language maintenance amongst the Parya of Tajikistan."
• ABBESS, Elisabeth; MÜLLER, Katja; PAUL, Daniel; TIESSEN, Calvin; TIESSEN, Gabriela, authors; CLIFTON, John M., editor. 2010. "Language maintenance among the Parya of Tajikistan."  
• ABBESS, Elisabeth; MÜLLER, Katja; TIESSEN, Calvin; TIESSEN, Gabriela, authors. 2005. "Ishkashimi: a father's language: how a very small language survives."
• CLIFTON, John M., editor. 2005. Studies in languages of Tajikistan.

Thailand

• ISARA Choosri; MALONE, Dennis L., authors. 2007. "Stabilizing indigenous languages, a Symposium report."  
• MALONE, Dennis L., author. 2005. "Where do we go from here? The challenge and prospects of language revitalization in South East Asia."
• MILLER, Carolyn P., author. 1996. "Application of typologies for language maintenance and loss to Southeast Asian linguistic minorities: the case of the Bru-So and Kadazan-Dusun language continua."
• NAHHAS, Ramzi W., author. 2007. "Sociolinguistic survey of Mpi in Thailand."  
• PERSON, Kirk R., author. 2005. "Language revitalization or dying gasp? Language preservation efforts among the Bisu of Northern Thailand."

Pacific

Papua New Guinea

• LANDWEER, M. Lynn, author. 2006. A Melanesian perspective on mechanisms of language maintenance and shift: case studies from Papua New Guinea.
• LANDWEER, M. Lynn, author. 2010. "Land-language link."  
• MALONE, Dennis L., author. 1997. Namel manmeri: Language and culture maintenance and mother tongue education in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.
• NAGAI, Yasuko, author. 2000. "Towards the maintenance of the Maiwala language: the role of a vernacular elementary school in Papua New Guinea."

Solomon Islands

• BOERGER, Brenda H., author. 2007. "Natqgu literacy: capturing three domains for written language use."