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Language ecology, language endangerment and relict languages: Case studies from Adamawa (Cameroon-Nigeria)

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As a contribution to the more general discussion on causes of language endangerment and death, we describe the language ecologies of four related languages (Bà Mambila [mzk]/[mcu], Sombә (Somyev or Kila) [kgt], Oumyari Wawa [www], Njanga (Kwanja) [knp]) of the Cameroon-Nigeria borderland to reach an understanding of the factors and circumstances that have brought two of these languages, Sombә and Njanga, to the brink of extinction; a third, Oumyari, is unstable/eroded, while Bà Mambila is sta...

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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1515/opli-2021-0011

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
SAME
Oxford college:
Wolfson College
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0001-5853-7351
Publisher:
De Gruyter Publisher's website
Journal:
Open Linguistics Journal website
Volume:
7
Issue:
1
Pages:
244-300
Publication date:
2021-06-11
Acceptance date:
2021-04-09
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EISSN:
2300-9969
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1170869
Local pid:
pubs:1170869
Deposit date:
2021-04-09

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