Abstract I realize that there must be many people here who are attending a conference on the subject of Language Endangerment for the first time, and who may not have heard any of the information or opinions I shall begin this presentation with; on the other hand there are some people here, especially old friends and colleagues, who have heard this before, who I hope will be patient with me. To summarize: in a 1991 paper entitled “The world ‘s languages in cri- sis “ addressing the Linguistic Society of America, I presented my views on the impending global mass extinction of languages with these statistics: of the world ‘s 6,000 languages, 20 to 50 per cent already are or soon will be no longer spoken by children, i.e. are moribund, to become extinct during.
Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 49 citations exist upstream.
Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.