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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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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 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:
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2300-9969
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- English
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1170869
- Local pid:
- pubs:1170869
- Deposit date:
- 2021-04-09
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- Connell et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © 2021 Bruce Connell et al., published by De Gruyter. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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