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Publication details [#46153]

Barreña, Andoni, Esti Amorrortu, Anne Ortega, Belen Uranga, Esti Izagirre and Itziar Idiazabal. 2007. Does the number of speakers of a language determine its fate? International Journal of the Sociology of Language 186.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language death | language maintenance | language use | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Languages of the world

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This study argues that instead of speakers' number, natural transmission and intergenerational use are better predictors of language survival or death. Data on more than 525 languages, gathered by the Amarauna Languages group of the UNESCO Center in the Basque Country, will be used in a report on the actual sociolinguistic situation of the world languages