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Way, John Van and Nala Huiying Lee. 2016. Assessing levels of endangerment in the Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat) using the Language Endangerment Index (LEI). Language in Society 45 (2) : 271–292. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
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Article in journal
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English
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Cambridge University Press
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This paper treats the Language Endangerment Index (LEI) construction. Based on four factors (intergenerational transfer, total speaker number, speaker amount trends, and fields of use), this index diverges from other evaluation methods in various ways, notably as it can be employed even with restricted disposable information.