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Download full textMoseley, Christopher – 1995
The future of endangered languages is discussed, drawing on experiences in development of an atlas of language. Issues in the debate over language maintenance are examined, including the emotion-laden concept of ethnicity and relative youth of the concepts of human rights and linguistic geography. The fact that the atlas in question indicates only…
Descriptors: Atlases, Contrastive Linguistics, Demography, Diachronic Linguistics
