Browsing Department of Linguistics by Subject "indices"

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The index of linguistic diversity: A new quantitative measure of trends in the status of the world's languages

Harmon, David; Loh, Jonathan (University of Hawai'i Press, 2010-09)

The Index of Linguistic Diversity (ILD) is a new quantitative measure of trends in linguistic diversity. To derive the ILD we created a database of time-series data on language demographics, which we believe to be the ...