Research Guides: CES 240: Lang: Colonial/Imperial Diff: Start Here

Endangered Language Resources

Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Information on 7000 living languages of the world, including names and dialects, language classifications and language family trees. Entries on countries list languages, language counts, principal languages, languages by vitality level, population estimates, location, usage, and second language information.

Endangered Languages Project
Project that supports language preservation and documentation around the world.

Language Planning and Policy in Native America by Teresa L. McCarty
Explores language planning, language education, and language policy for diverse Native American peoples across time, space, and place.
Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff; Mark Johnson
Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. .