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Endangered Languages

Attitudes to Endangered Languages by Julia Sallabank
ISBN: 9781107030619
Publication Date: 2013-12-19
Language Death and Language Maintenance by Mark Janse (Editor); Sijmen Tol (Editor); Vincent Hendriks (Editor)
ISBN: 9027247528
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Language Death by David Crystal
ISBN: 0521012716
Publication Date: 2002-04-29
Vanishing Voices by Daniel Nettle; Suzanne Romaine
ISBN: 0195136241
Publication Date: 2000-07-27
When Languages Die by K. David Harrison
ISBN: 9780195181920
Publication Date: 2007-02-01
廣東俗語正字考
ISBN: 9789629922214
沪语盘点 : 上海话文化
ISBN: 9787806464205
On the Death and Life of Languages by Jody Gladding; Claude Hagege
ISBN: 9780300137330
Publication Date: 2009-09-22
Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages by Christopher Moseley
ISBN: 9780700711970
Publication Date: 2007-04-23
The Chinese Language by John DeFrancis
ISBN: 9780824810689
Publication Date: 1986-03-01

Essential Database

The "Articles" search on the DKU Library homepage, is a good place to begin a search.

In addition, these databases can be used to search for articles on your topic:

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Includes the use of language as well as linguistics, phonetics, speech, communication, and sociolinguistics.
Academic Search Complete
General database with good coverage of scholarly and popular articles on a wide range of topics.
Google Scholar
Unlike the general Google search engine, Google Scholar searches across scholarly publications (articles, books, and other materials).
JSTOR
Full-text database of major scholarly journals from their earliest issues to within a few years of current publication.
Nexis Uni
Full text access to U.S. and international newspapers, radio and television transcripts; 1970s-present.

China Academic Journals (中国知网期刊库) This link opens in a new window
Full-text database of Chinese journals published in China. Duke users have access to Literature/History Philosophy (Series F), Politics/Military Affairs/Law (Series G), Education & Social Sciences (Series H), and Economics & Management (Series J). Includes the Century Journals Project archive.

Finding Subject-Specific Databases

The library subscribes to hundreds of specialized databases on subject areas ranging from engineering to art history. Here's how to begin using subject-specific databases:

Video Resources

Speaking in Tongues: The History of Language Episode
It is predicted that within a century more than half of the worlds languages will become extinct, but as languages are lost, new ones emerge naturally or are constructed.
Birth and death: life cycle of language
It is predicted that within a century more than half of the world's languages will become extinct, but as languages are lost, new ones emerge naturally or are constructed.

Web Resources

List of endangered language
The list from Wikipedia is the index for the endangered languages in all over the world.
Endangered Languages
The project serves as an online resource for samples and research on endangered languages as well as a forum for advice and best practices for those working to strengthen linguistic diversity.
UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
UNESCO maps the worlds' languages.

WRITING 90SK: U.S. Academic Writing for EFL Students: Endangered Languages

Endangered Languages

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