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Articles by James Crawford

Endangered Native American Languages: What Is to Be Done, and Why?
Revised version of an article in the Bilingual Research Journal, special issue on Indigenous Language Education and Literacy, vol. 19, no. 1 (Winter 1995).

Seven Hypotheses on Language Loss: Causes and Cures
In Stabilizing Indigenous Languages, ed. Gina Cantoni (Flagstaff: Center for Excellence in Education, Northern Arizona University, 1996).

Links

Teaching Indigenous Languages – Extensive collection of resources at Northern Arizona University, including proceedings from a series of conferences, including:

Stabilizing Indigenous Languages (1994 & 1995)

Teaching Indigenous Languages (1997)

Revitalizing Indigenous Languages (1998)

"SPEAKING IN TONGUES: As Telecommunications, Tourism and Trade Make the World a Smaller Place, Languages Are Dying at an Alarming Rate," by James Geary, Time International Edition, July 7, 1997
Centre for Theories of Language and Learning – Highlights a conference on the Conservation of Endangered Languages held at the University of Bristol in April 1995.
Endangered Languages Fund – Offers grants to support linguistic and revitalization efforts with endangered languages.
Ethnologue – The most extensive database of the world's 6500+ languages; published by the Summer Institute of Linguistics, a missionary organization associated with the Wycliffe Bible Translators.
Iatiku Newsletter – On-linge publication of the Foundation for Endangered Languages.
Native Web – Offers links to a wide variety of Native American sites.
NAT-LANG Mailing List – Archives of a listserv oriented toward Native American language activists; sponsored by NativeNet.
Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas – Major organization of linguists and activists working with endangered languages in the Western Hempisphere; publishes on-line newsletter.
Terralingua – Organization highlighting the parallel threats to biological and linguistic diversity.

Last updated on 10 April 2001