Language endangerment and language documentation in Africa
Friederike Lüpke
- 16 May 2019
- pp 468-490
About: The article was published on 16 May 2019. and is currently open access. The article focuses on the topics: Language documentation.
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Figure 5: Grafitti in the grounds of an abandoned hotel in Kabrousse, Casamance 
Figure 3: Schematic representation of the convergences and divergences between languages (translated from Cobbinah et al 2016): 
Figure 1: Schematic representation of language prototypes for three speakers (translated from Cobbinah et al. 2016) 
Figure 2: Schematic representation of the prototype emerging from the shared core of speakers (translated from Cobbinah et al. 2016)
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