Endangered Languages of the Caucasus and Beyond.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Korkmaz, Ramazan, 1962-

Contributor:

Doğan, Gürkan.

Conference Name:

International CUA Conference on Endangered Languages (1st : 2014 : Ardahan, Turkey)

Series:

Languages of Asia 15.

Languages of Asia ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caucasus.

Caucasian languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : Brill Academic Publishers : Brill, 2016.

Summary:

According to UNESCO, it is believed that at least half of the nearly 7,000 languages spoken around the world will cease to be used within the next 100 years. If this issue is neglected, people will lose not only their cultural heritage but also invaluable understandings about the history of all humankind. Endangered Languages of the Caucasus and Beyond includes the manuscripts of 19 papers that were presented at the 1st International CUA Conference on Endangered Languages, organized by the Caucasus University Association (CUA), at Ardahan, Turkey, on 13 to 16 October 2014. The articles address issues such as the state of the field of documentation, conservation and revitalization of endangered languages with special reference to the endangered languages in the Caucasus region and beyond.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Consequences of Russian Linguistic Hegemony in (Post-)Soviet Colonial Space / Gregory D. S. Anderson

The Contacts between the Ossetians and the Karachay-Balkars, According to V. I. Abaev and Marrian Ideology / Johnny Cheung

Why Caucasian Languages? / Bernard Comrie

International Research Collaboration on Documentation and Revitalization of Endangered Turkic Languages in Ukraine: Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Karaim, Qrymchak and Urum Experience / İryna M. Dryga

Cases-Non-cases: At the Margins of the Tsezic Case System / Diana Forker

Language Endangerment in the Balkans with Some Comparisons to the Caucasus / Victor A. Friedman

Instilling Pride by Raising a Language’s Prestige / George Hewitt

Unwritten Minority Languages of Daghestan: Status and Conservation Issues / Zaynab Alieva and Madzhid Khalilov

Report on the Fieldwork Studies of the Endangered Turkic Languages / Yong-Sŏng Li

Empire, Lingua Franca, Vernacular: The Roots of Endangerment / Nicholas Ostler

Endangered Turkic Languages from China / Mehmet Ölmez

The Death of a Language: The Case of Ubykh / A. Sumru Özsoy

Diversity in Dukhan Reindeer Terminology / Elisabetta Ragagnin

How Much Udi is Udi? / Wolfgang Schulze

Language Contact in Anatolia: The Case of Sason Arabic / Eser Erguvanlı Taylan

Language and Emergent Literacy in Svaneti / Kevin Tuite

The Internet as a Tool for Language Development and Maintenance? The Case of Megrelian / Karina Vamling

Linguistic Topography and Language Survival / George van Driem

And So Flows History / Alexander Vovin

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 11, 2016).

OCLC:

962065278

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004328693 DOI