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Language revitalization : insights from Thailand
- Title
- Language revitalization : insights from Thailand / Suwilai Premsrirat and David Hirsh (eds).
- Publication
- Bern, Switzerland : Peter Lang, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Description
- 306 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This volume reports on programs to revitalize and maintain languages of Thailand, with a particular focus on small enclave languages and school-based revitalization programs. Issues of language status, cultural heritage and identity are explored. The approximately 70 languages of Thailand belong to five language families: Tai (24), Austroasiatic (23), Austronesian (3), Sino-Tibetan (18) and Hmong-Mien (2). Currently, fifteen of these languages are classified as seriously endangered. This volume discusses language revitalization efforts involving six Mon-Khmer groups (Maniq, Chong, Nyah Kur, So, Mlabri, Lavue); four Thai-related groups (Phetburi western central Thai, Phutai, Lao, Nyaw); two Austronesian groups (Moklen, Patani Malay); and one Tibeto-Burman group (Bisu). The book provides a framework and model for future developments in revitalizing Thailand?s indigenous languages.
- Series Statement
- Linguistic insights ; Studies in language and communication ; 246
- Uniform Title
- Linguistic insights ; v. 246.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN
- 3034334974
- 9783034334976
- LCCN
- 99978268382
- OCLC
- on1030968874
- 1030968874
- SCSB-9292122
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries