Assessing the Linguistic Vitality of Miqie: An Endangered Ngwi (Loloish) Language of Yunnan, China

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dc.contributor.authorGao, Katie B
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-24T19:59:22Z
dc.date.available2015-09-24T19:59:22Z
dc.date.issued2015-09
dc.description.abstractLanguage shift is the process by which a speech community in a contact situation gradually abandons one language in favor of another. Because the causal factors of language shift are largely social (Fishman 1991), languages, groups, and communities with diverse social situations can be expected to exhibit varying levels of language shift. This paper reports on the linguistic vitality of Miqie [ISO 639-3:yiq], an endangered Central Ngwi/Yi language of Yunnan, China, and identifies the social factors contributing to language shift. Findings from participant interviews in 11 village survey points show there are varying degrees of language endangerment, with intermarriage and access to a major road as primary indicators of shift. This paper evaluates different tools for assessing linguistic vitality and uses the Language Endangerment Index (Lee & Van Way in press) to assess Miqie language endangerment at the village level. Language shift information is essential in the description and documentation of a language, especially because the contexts in which the language is spoken may disappear faster than the language itself.
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.format.extent28
dc.identifier.citationGao, Katie B. 2015. Assessing the Linguistic Vitality of Miqie: An Endangered Ngwi (Loloish) Language of Yunnan, China. Language Documentation & Conservation 9. 164-191.
dc.identifier.issn1934-5275
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/24640
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii Press
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
dc.subjectlinguistic vitality
dc.subjectendangered languages
dc.subjectMiqie
dc.subjectYunnan
dc.subjectChina
dc.titleAssessing the Linguistic Vitality of Miqie: An Endangered Ngwi (Loloish) Language of Yunnan, China
dc.typeArticle
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prism.startingpage164

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