Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages

由於全球化的影響，過去十年中出現了對世界上快速消失的語言。對這些語言進行編目和描述，構成世界六千種或更多不同語言的絕大多數，這些語言在未來幾十年內有可能消失。本書的介紹中討論了為什麼世界上這麼多較小的，權力較弱的語言未被傳遞給今後幾代人的原因。

引言之後是區域部分，每個部分由一位著名的專家撰寫，結合起來提供每種語言的綜合列表，每個區域部分都包含一個介紹，涉及該地區特有的語言保護問題，已知滅絕語言的調查和分類問題。

引言之後是該地區內所有已知語言的清單，這些語言是瀕危與否，由遺傳隸屬關係排列，標有瀕危和滅絕語言。此列表後面是按字母順序排列的條目，涵蓋列為瀕危的每種語言。提供了有用的地圖，以確定世界每個地區較為複雜的較小語言集群。

因此，百科全書提供單一資源：對每個多語言國家和每個大陸當前語言政策情況的專家分析，對來自世界各地的鮮為人知的語言的詳細描述，以及按區域劃分的所有語言的明確字母條目目前認為世界上的語言有滅絕的危險。 “世界瀕危語言百科全書”將成為所有學術語言學系列的必要補充，並將成為對發展研究，文化遺產和國際事務感興趣的一系列讀者的有用資源。

The concern for the fast-disappearing language stocks of the world has arisen particularly in the past decade, as a result of the impact of globalization. This book appears as an answer to a felt need: to catalogue and describe those languages, making up the vast majority of the world's six thousand or more distinct tongues, which are in danger of disappearing within the next few decades. Endangerment is a complex issue, and the reasons why so many of the world's smaller, less empowered languages are not being passed on to future generations today are discussed in the book's introduction.

The introduction is followed by regional sections, each authored by a notable specialist, combining to provide a comprehensive listing of every language which, by the criteria of endangerment set out in the introduction, is likely to disappear within the next few decades. These languages make up ninety per cent of the world's remaining language stocks. Each regional section comprises an introduction that deals with problems of language preservation peculiar to the area, surveys of known extinct languages, and problems of classification.

  Akos B. Apatoczky (Autor)

Publisher:Routledge 

ISBN:    978-0700711970 

原價   £ 175  台幣價 NT$9625