Language Diversity in the Pacific: Endangerment and Survival

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Denis Cunningham, D. E. Ingram, Kenneth Sumbuk
Multilingual Matters, Jan 1, 2006 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 217 pages
The Southwest Pacific from Southern China through Indonesia, Australia and the Pacific Islands constitutes the richest linguistic region of the world. That rich resource cannot be taken for granted. Some of its languages have already been lost; many more are under threat. The challenge is to describe the languages that exist today and to adopt policies that will support their maintenance.
 

Contents

Some Data
17
Naming Languages Drawing Language Boundaries
26
Keeping Track of Indigenous Language Endangerment in Australia
56
Will They Survive?
87
Language Endangerment and Globalisation in the Pacific
99
Endangered Languages of China and SouthEast Asia
114
Indonesia and East Timor
123
The Future of the Languages of Vanuatu and New Caledonia
133
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About the author (2006)

Denis Cunningham is Assistant Principal in the Victorian School of Languages. He has published widely in journals, reports and conferences around the world, and was made a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators in 2001.
David Ingram is Professor and Executive Dean in the School of Applied Language Studies in Melbourne University Private, Melbourne Australia. He has published extensively in applied linguistics.
Kenneth Sumbuk is Professor and Executive Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Papua New Guinea. His research specialty is in Papuan languages, Pidgin and Creole linguistics and dying languages.

Bibliographic information

TitleLanguage Diversity in the Pacific: Endangerment and Survival
Volume 134 of Multilingual matters
EditorsDenis Cunningham, D. E. Ingram, Kenneth Sumbuk
Editionillustrated
PublisherMultilingual Matters, 2006
ISBN1853598674, 9781853598678
Length217 pages
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