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Colonization, globalization and the plight of ‘weak’ languages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2002

SALIKOKO S. MUFWENE
SALIKOKO S. MUFWENE
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
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Abstract

Daniel Nettle & Suzanne Romaine, Vanishing voices: the extinction of the world's languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. x+241.

Type
Review Article
Information
Journal of Linguistics , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , July 2002 , pp. 375 - 395
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

I am grateful to my Winter 2001 Ecology of Language Evolution class for motivating me to articulate more clearly some of the issues I raise below. I also thank Michel DeGraff, Sylvain Neuvel, Alison Irvine, Umberto Ansaldo, and an anonymous JL referee for feedback on the draft of this article.