Publications

Publication details [#12304]

Crosby, Alfred W. and Frances Karttunen. 2000. Biodiversity and Linguistic Diversity: Collision and Reduction. In Karttunen, Frances and Jan-Ola Östman, eds. Issues of Minority Peoples. (Department of General Linguistics Publications 31). University of Helsinki. pp. 133–140.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

language death | linguistic diversity

Annotation

It is shown how disease contributed to language death among the indigenous languages of North America.