Assessment scales of language endangerment vs in-depth studies: The case of Ngoni in Tanzania

• Main Author: Rosendal, Tove
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Austin; Canada; Dwyer; Greenland; Somerville
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/25261

There is a need to go beyond the often used assessment scales for judging language endangerment, proposed by i. a. Fishman (1991), UNESCO by Brenzinger, Yamamoto et al. (2003), Lewis and Simons (2010) and Moseley and Nicholas (2010), to properly establish the vitality of languages in a bi- or multil...