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Language shift

Index of SIL publications on Language shift listed by country.

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General works

• Feenstra, Jaap. 1996. Language shift—a value-driven complex in a changing environment.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Cameroon

• Diller, Jason and Kari Jordan-Diller. 2002. "Sentence repetition testing (SRT) and language shift survey of the Tuki language."  

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Bagamba, Bukpa Araali. 2007. A study of language shift in rural Africa: the Hema of the North-East of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Nigeria

• Aaron, Uche E. 1996/1997. "The category of number in Obolo verbal morphology."

South Africa

• Sim, Ronald J. 1997. Review of: English in language shift: The history, structure and sociolinguistics of South African Indian English, by Rajend Mesthrie.

Uganda

• Wiedemann, Sabine and Prossy Nannyombi. 2007. "Ik language assessment report."  

Americas

Canada

• Palmer, Scott. 1997. "Language of work: the critical link between economic change and language shift."

United States

• Palmer, Scott. 1997. "Language of work: the critical link between economic change and language shift."

Asia

Azerbaijan

• Clifton, John M. and others. 2002. "The sociolinguistic situation of the Budukh in Azerbaijan."
• Clifton, John M. and others. 2005. "The sociolinguistic situation of the Budukh in Azerbaijan."  

China

• Chan, Ken, Yang Liujin and Bai Bibo. 2008. "Language use and language attitudes among rural Nisu."  

Indonesia

• Katubi, Obing. 2006. "Lampungic languages: looking for new evidence of the possibility of language shift in Lampung and the question of its reversal."  
• Katubi. 2007. "Lampungic languages: looking for new evidence of language shift in Lampung and the question of its reversal."

Malaysia

• Amirthalingam, Jeyanthi. 2004. Informal adult learning in Salako society: adult learning principles in Salako women's skill transmission patterns.

Thailand

• Tehan, Thomas M. and Ramzi W. Nahhas. 2009. "Mpi present and future: reversing language shift."  

Pacific

Papua New Guinea

• Landweer, Martha Lynn. 2006. A Melanesian perspective on mechanisms of language maintenance and shift: case studies from Papua New Guinea.
• Yarupawa, Shem. 1996. "Domain dependent code choices and their implications for the future of the Musom language."