Matthias Brenzinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 324397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthias Brenzinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthias |
| FAMILY NAME | Brenzinger |
| SIGNATURE | BRENZINGER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Language activists and linguists in pursuit of the siPhuthi cause
Sifinyeto [siPhuthi] Ipampiri lhe inyatshella buhlogwa be kuhlaganela musebeti gekuphidza tiyato le tifikelwe yhitikhulumi lhetiyati-mukhulumo emusebetini whekutleketa mukhulumo whesiPhuthi lheku sivusuluta. Ekubeni kusjiyekiye te tikhulumi letitigidi letimbalwa temukhulumo, siPhuthi sikegotini lesabekako yhekucimela; futshi mukhulumo lho lhetikhulumi tawo tiya swayiwa kabhe tiya khetshullwa emayemweni hhemaphasi hhakeLesotho lakeSouth Africa. Ti…
The Role of Teaching in Language Revival and Revitalization Movements
Teaching is the main or even only way to pass on ancestral languages when intergenerational language transmission no longer takes place. The main reason for the interruption of natural language transmission is an increasing weakening of community bonds due to intermarriage, migration, and mobility. The formal or informal teaching of ancestral languages is therefore at the core of language revival and language revitalization movements. The article…
Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages
The return of Hawaiian: Language networks of the revival movement
Some 40 years ago, language transmission in Hawai‘i was interrupted among Hawaiians across all islands with the sole exception of language maintenance among a small community on the tiny, isolated Ni‘ihau Island. Today, Hawaiian has returned as spoken and written medium with some 5000–7000 new speakers. The present paper provides an up-to-date account of the sociolinguistic situation in Hawai‘i, and depicts the language ecological environment whi…
Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa (Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] Book 64)
A Khoekhoegowab Dictionary with an English–Khoekhoegowab Index
Wilfrid H.G. Haacke and Eliphas Eiseb. A Khoekhoegowab Dictionary with an English–Khoekhoegowab Index. 2002, xiv + 740 pp. ISBN 99916- 0-401-4. Windhoek: Gamsberg Macmillan. Price: N$175.00 (Hard-cover), N$150.00 (Soft-cover)
The Ryukyus and the New, But Endangered, Languages of Japan
On 21 February 2009, the international mother language day, UNESCO launched the online version of its 'Atlas of the world's languages in danger'. This electronic version that will also be published as the third edition of the UNESCO Atlas in May 2009, now includes the Luchuan [Ryukyuan] languages of Japan (UNESCO 2009). 'Luchuan' is the Uchinaaguchi (Okinawan language) term for the Japanese 'Ryukyu'. Likewise 'Okinawa' is 'Uchinaa' in Uchinaaguch…
Endangered Languages in Africa
Minority Languages, a Cultural Legacy
Being professionally interested in African languages, there is no way in which we could try to hide our rather selfish motive in hoping for the survival of African languages, and as many as possible at that. The disappearance of any African language means to us scholars the final, irrecoverable loss of an important empirical resource, not only for linguistic studies, but also for studies on the history and culture of a people. Not many outside th…
Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa
The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches - theoretical and empirical - supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from…
Language Death in Africa
Africa, along with Asia, is the continent with the highest number of 'living' indigenous languages. European languages, mainly English, French and Portuguese, have spread throughout all African nations during the last 200 years; however, until today, the use of these 'foreign' languages has been mostly restricted to certain domains, such as higher education, politics and business, and also to a relatively small number of people. According to Scot…
Language Death in Africa
Africa, along with Asia, is the continent with the highest number of 'living' indigenous languages. European languages, mainly English, French and Portuguese, have spread throughout all African nations during the last 200 years; however, until today, the use of these 'foreign' languages has been mostly restricted to certain domains, such as higher education, politics and business, and also to a relatively small number of people. According to Scot…
The return of Hawaiian: Language networks of the revival movement
Some 40 years ago, language transmission in Hawai‘i was interrupted among Hawaiians across all islands with the sole exception of language maintenance among a small community on the tiny, isolated Ni‘ihau Island. Today, Hawaiian has returned as spoken and written medium with some 5000–7000 new speakers. The present paper provides an up-to-date account of the sociolinguistic situation in Hawai‘i, and depicts the language ecological environment whi…
Language Death in Africa
Africa, along with Asia, is the continent with the highest number of 'living' indigenous languages. European languages, mainly English, French and Portuguese, have spread throughout all African nations during the last 200 years; however, until today, the use of these 'foreign' languages has been mostly restricted to certain domains, such as higher education, politics and business, and also to a relatively small number of people. According to Scot…
Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa
The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches - theoretical and empirical - supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from…
Minority Languages, a Cultural Legacy
Being professionally interested in African languages, there is no way in which we could try to hide our rather selfish motive in hoping for the survival of African languages, and as many as possible at that. The disappearance of any African language means to us scholars the final, irrecoverable loss of an important empirical resource, not only for linguistic studies, but also for studies on the history and culture of a people. Not many outside th…
Endangered Languages in Africa
The Ryukyus and the New, But Endangered, Languages of Japan
On 21 February 2009, the international mother language day, UNESCO launched the online version of its 'Atlas of the world's languages in danger'. This electronic version that will also be published as the third edition of the UNESCO Atlas in May 2009, now includes the Luchuan [Ryukyuan] languages of Japan (UNESCO 2009). 'Luchuan' is the Uchinaaguchi (Okinawan language) term for the Japanese 'Ryukyu'. Likewise 'Okinawa' is 'Uchinaa' in Uchinaaguch…
A Khoekhoegowab Dictionary with an English–Khoekhoegowab Index
Wilfrid H.G. Haacke and Eliphas Eiseb. A Khoekhoegowab Dictionary with an English–Khoekhoegowab Index. 2002, xiv + 740 pp. ISBN 99916- 0-401-4. Windhoek: Gamsberg Macmillan. Price: N$175.00 (Hard-cover), N$150.00 (Soft-cover)
Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa (Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] Book 64)
The return of Hawaiian: Language networks of the revival movement
Some 40 years ago, language transmission in Hawai‘i was interrupted among Hawaiians across all islands with the sole exception of language maintenance among a small community on the tiny, isolated Ni‘ihau Island. Today, Hawaiian has returned as spoken and written medium with some 5000–7000 new speakers. The present paper provides an up-to-date account of the sociolinguistic situation in Hawai‘i, and depicts the language ecological environment whi…
Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages
The Role of Teaching in Language Revival and Revitalization Movements
Teaching is the main or even only way to pass on ancestral languages when intergenerational language transmission no longer takes place. The main reason for the interruption of natural language transmission is an increasing weakening of community bonds due to intermarriage, migration, and mobility. The formal or informal teaching of ancestral languages is therefore at the core of language revival and language revitalization movements. The article…
Language activists and linguists in pursuit of the siPhuthi cause
Sifinyeto [siPhuthi] Ipampiri lhe inyatshella buhlogwa be kuhlaganela musebeti gekuphidza tiyato le tifikelwe yhitikhulumi lhetiyati-mukhulumo emusebetini whekutleketa mukhulumo whesiPhuthi lheku sivusuluta. Ekubeni kusjiyekiye te tikhulumi letitigidi letimbalwa temukhulumo, siPhuthi sikegotini lesabekako yhekucimela; futshi mukhulumo lho lhetikhulumi tawo tiya swayiwa kabhe tiya khetshullwa emayemweni hhemaphasi hhakeLesotho lakeSouth Africa. Ti…
Linguistics (7 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Language revitalization (3 works) · African history and culture analysis (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Endangered species (2 works)