TYP113 - Language Endangerment
Channel: The Virtual Linguistics Campus
Date: 30/11/2012

This E-Lecture discusses one of the central duties of modern linguistics: the protection of existing languages. Many of our 7,000 languages are highly endangered, some of them even extinct. Thus, J. Handke discusses the main aspects of language endangerment and lists possible ways to save languages that are under pressure or revive languages that are highly moribund.