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Senri Ethnological Studies (SES)

No.44 Northern Minority Languages:Problems of Survival

March 31, 1997 Publication

Edited by Hiroshi Shoji, Juha Janhunen

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Contents
Preface
Introduction
1.The indigenous languages of the North: a report on their present state
MICHAEL KRAUSS
2.Prospects of language preservation in the North
STEPHEN A. WURM
3.Language policies and national consciousness among the Northern Minorities
HIROSHI SHOJI
4.Factors of Russianization in Siberia and linguo-ecological strategies
EUGENE HELIMSK
5.Ecology and ethnic survival among the Nenets
TAPANI SALMINEN
6.The Evenki language from the Yenisei to Sakhalin
VIKTOR ATKNINE
7.The languages of Manchuria in today's China
JUHA JANHUNEN
8.State languages as a challenge to ethnicity in the Sami Land
NILSØIVIND HELANDER
9.Social aspects of the Ainu linguistic decline
HIDEO KIRIKAE
10.Linguistic diversity and national borders of Tungusic
TOSHIRO TSUMAGARI
11.Unangam tunuu and Sugtestun: a struggle for continued life
PANU HALLAMAA
Conclusion
List of contributors
Index of language names and ethnonyms

 
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