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Bush and Kwadi Languages (Westphal)
Bush and Kwadi Languages
Source:
Westphal, E.O.J. 1963. The Linguistic Prehistory of Southern Africa: Bush and Kwadi Languages. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 33 (3). 263.
Date Digitized: 2009
Map Description:
This map displays the location of several 'Bush' languages and the approximate area in which they are spoken in Southern Africa.
Date Digitized: 2009
Map Description:
This map displays the location of several 'Bush' languages and the approximate area in which they are spoken in Southern Africa.
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Earlier Bush Areas (Westphal)
Earlier Bush Areas
Source:
Westphal, E. O. J. 1963. The Linguistic Prehistory of Southern Africa: Bush, Kwadi Hottentot, and Bantu Linguistic Relationships. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 33 (3). 257.
Date Digitized: 2009
Map Description:
This map shows early distribution of Bush languages inferred from the descriptions of now extinct languages by earlier writers. Although the terminology used by the original author has been reproduced here, some of the terms are now considered derogatory. Many of these languages are now classified as members of the Khoisan family.
Date Digitized: 2009
Map Description:
This map shows early distribution of Bush languages inferred from the descriptions of now extinct languages by earlier writers. Although the terminology used by the original author has been reproduced here, some of the terms are now considered derogatory. Many of these languages are now classified as members of the Khoisan family.
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The UNESCO Database of Endangered Languages (UNESCO)
The UNESCO Database of Endangered Languages
Map Creator:
LINGUIST List (Anthony Aristar)
Data Source: Mosely Christopher. 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. Paris, UNESCO Publishing, Online version. http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/ (29 November 2010)
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Usage Notes/Copyright Status: Used by Permission
Date Created: 29 November 2010
Map Description:
UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger is a database intended to raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to safeguard the world’s linguistic diversity among policy-makers, speaker communities and the general public, and to be a tool to monitor the status of endangered languages and the trends in linguistic diversity at the global level.
Degrees of endangerment
The map designates the degrees of endangerment as based on UNESCO’s Language Vitality and Endangerment framework.
This establishes six degrees of vitality/endangerment based on nine factors. Of these factors, the most salient is that of intergenerational transmission.
Data Source: Mosely Christopher. 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. Paris, UNESCO Publishing, Online version. http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/ (29 November 2010)
Contact: llmap
linguistlist.org
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: Used by Permission
Date Created: 29 November 2010
Map Description:
UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger is a database intended to raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to safeguard the world’s linguistic diversity among policy-makers, speaker communities and the general public, and to be a tool to monitor the status of endangered languages and the trends in linguistic diversity at the global level.
Degrees of endangerment
The map designates the degrees of endangerment as based on UNESCO’s Language Vitality and Endangerment framework.
This establishes six degrees of vitality/endangerment based on nine factors. Of these factors, the most salient is that of intergenerational transmission.
| Degree of endangerment | Intergenerational Language Transmission | safe | language is spoken by all generations; intergenerational transmission is uninterrupted >> not included in the map |
|---|---|
| vulnerable | most children speak the language, but it may be restricted to certain domains (e.g., home) |
| definitely endangered | children no longer learn the language as mother tongue in the home |
| severely endangered | language is spoken by grandparents and older generations; while the parent generation may understand it, they do not speak it to children or among themselves |
| critically endangered | the youngest speakers are grandparents and older, and they speak the language partially and infrequently |
| extinct | there are no speakers left >> included in the Atlas if presumably extinct since the 1950s |
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