Cultural Ecologies Abstract. The study of Endangered Languages: he Cases of Wawa and Njanga  

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Griffiths, Sascha Sebastian ; Robson, Laura

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 52 no. 2 (2010), page 217-237.
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The study of Endangered Languages: The Cases of Wawa and Njanga Sascha Sebastian Griffiths University of Kent Laura Robson University of Kent of endangered languages can reveal interesting informa- tion about how languages adapt to changes in the environment of their speakers and particularly to changes in their culture. This article introduces two under- studied Cameroonian languages at different stages of endangerment: Wawa (endangered) and Njanga (moribund). Njanga has been replaced by a related dialect (Sundáni) and Wawa is threatened by the dominant Fulfulde language and is undergoing gradual and language ecology perspective is terms, and days of the week.

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