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Title:		Assessing the Linguistic Vitality of Miqie: An Endangered Ngwi (Loloish) Language of Yunnan, China
Bibliographic Citation:		Gao, Katie B; 2015-09; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24640.
Creator:		Gao, Katie B
Date (W3CDTF):		2015-09
Description:		Language 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.
		National Foreign Language Resource Center
Format:		28
Identifier:		Gao, Katie B. 2015. Assessing the Linguistic Vitality of Miqie: An Endangered Ngwi (Loloish) Language of Yunnan, China. Language Documentation & Conservation 9. 164-191.
		1934-5275
Identifier (URI):		http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24640
Language:		English
Language (ISO639):		eng
Publisher:		University of Hawaii Press
Rights:		Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
		Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States
		http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
Subject:		linguistic vitality
		endangered languages
		Miqie
		Yunnan
		China
Table Of Contents:		gao.pdf
Type:		Article
Type (DCMI):		Text
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Citation:		Gao, Katie B. 2015. University of Hawaii Press.
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