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Language shift

Index of SIL publications on Language shift listed by country.

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

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General works

• FEENSTRA, Jacob, author. Available: 2010; Created: 1996. Language shift—a value-driven complex in a changing environment.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Cameroon

• DILLER, Jason; JORDAN-DILLER, Kari, authors. 2002. "Sentence repetition testing (SRT) and language shift survey of the Tuki language."  

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• ARAALI, Bagamba Bukpa, author. 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., author. 1996. "The category of number in Obolo verbal morphology."

South Africa

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

Uganda

• NANNYOMBI, Prossy; WIEDEMANN, Sabine, authors. 2007. "Ik language assessment report."  

Americas

Canada

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

United States

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

Asia

Azerbaijan

• CLIFTON, John M.; DECKINGA, Gabriela; LUCHT, Laura; MAK, Janfer; TIESSEN, Calvin, authors. 2002. "The sociolinguistic situation of the Budukh in Azerbaijan."
• CLIFTON, John M.; DECKINGA, Gabriela; LUCHT, Laura; MAK, Janfer; TIESSEN, Calvin, authors. 2005. "The sociolinguistic situation of the Budukh in Azerbaijan."  

China

• BAI Bibo; CHAN, Ken; YANG Liujin, authors. 2008. "Language use and language attitudes among rural Nisu."  

Indonesia

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

Malaysia

• BURKHARDT, Jey Lingam, author. 2004. Informal adult learning in Salako society: adult learning principles in Salako women's skill transmission patterns.

Thailand

• NAHHAS, Ramzi W.; TEHAN, Thomas M., authors. 2009. "Mpi present and future: reversing language shift."  

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."  
• YARUPAWA, Shem, author. 1996. "Domain dependent code choices and their implications for the future of the Musom language."