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Title Cultural Ecologies of Endangered Languages: The Cases of Wawa and Kwanja
Full text https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2298703
Date 2010
Author(s) Griffiths, Sascha ; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2696-4855; Robson, Laura
Abstract Griffiths S, Robson L. Cultural Ecologies of Endangered Languages: The Cases of Wawa and Kwanja. <em>Anthropological Linguistics</em>. 2010;52(2):217-238. - The study of endangered languages can reveal interesting informa- tion about how languages adapt to changes in the environment of their speakers and particularly to changes in their culture. This article introduces two under- studied Cameroonian languages at different stages of endangerment: Wawa (endangered) and Njanga (moribund). Njanga has been replaced by a related dialect (Sundani) and Wawa is threatened by the dominant Fulfulde language and is undergoing gradual and unexpected changes in reaction to the threat. A language ecology perspective is employed to examine data on numerals, color terms, and days of the week.
Subject(s) language endangerment; language ecology; language change; cultural ecology; colour terms; Wawa; numerals; Njanga; lexis
Language eng
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Relation info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1353/anl.2010.0013; info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/1944-6527; info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/1944-6527
Type of publication http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; doc-type:article; text
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Repository Bielefeld - University of Bielefeld
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