The vanishing languages of the Pacific rim / edited by Osahito Miyaoka, Osamu Sakiyama and Michael E. Krauss.

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Mass language extinction and documentation : the race against time / Michael E. Krauss -- Documenting and/or preserving endangered languages / Bernard Comrie -- Linguistic fieldwork among speakers of endangered languages / Colette Grinevald -- Language policy and language rights / David Bradley -- Using written records to revitalize North American languages / Toshihide Nakayama -- Indigenous voices and the linguistics of language revitalization / Marcellino Berardo and Akira Y. Yamamoto -- Pidgins and Creoles in the Pacific / Sabine Ehrhart and Peter Mühlhäusler -- Linguistic diversity in decline : a functional view / Osahito Miyaoka -- Languages of Middle America / Yoshiho Yasugi -- Languages of the Pacific Coast of South America / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- Fuegian languages / Oscar E. Aguilera -- Indigenous languages of Australia / Michael Walsh -- Languages of New Guinea / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Tonya N. Stebbins -- Languages of the Pacific region : Malayo-Polynesian / Osamu Sakiyama -- Indigenous languages of Formosa / Naomi Tsukida and Shigeru Tsuchida -- Languages of mainland South-East Asia / David Bradley -- Minority languages of China / Dory Poa and Randy J. LaPolla -- Japanese dialects and Ryukyuan / Shinji Sanada and Yukio Uemura -- Nivkh and Ainu / Hiroshi Nakagawa and Osami Okuda -- Siberia : Tungusic and Palaeosiberian / Toshiro Tsumagari, Megumi Kurebito, and Fubito Endo -- Native languages of Alaska / Michael E. Krauss -- Languages of the Northwest coast / Honoré Watanabe and Fumiko Sasama -- Languages of California / Leanne Hinton -- Languages of the South-West United States / Kumiko Ichihashi-Nakayama, Yukihiro Yumitani, and Akira Y. Yamamoto.

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In this work, the editors present a survey of the languages of the Pacific rim, a vast region containing the greatest typological and genetic diversity in the world. The analyses range from the regional to the local and focus on languages in a wide variety of social and ecological settings.

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