Endangered Languages with Millions of Speakers: Focus on Quechua in Peru

Type Journal Article - JournaLIPP
Title Endangered Languages with Millions of Speakers: Focus on Quechua in Peru
Author(s)
Issue 3
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2014
Page numbers 1-12
URL https://lipp.ub.lmu.de/index.php/lipp/article/download/393/104
Abstract
Programs designed to address the documentation and preservation of endangered languages have mainly concentrated their efforts on languages spoken by small speech communities that are relatively easy to survey. Endangered languages with large numbers of speakers have only marginally benefited from such programs. This article addresses the reasons for this discrepancy, taking as an example the situation of Peruvian Quechua and its numerous varieties.

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