Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
2008年第2卷第1期(总第2期)
1-13
2008-10-01
Ordering the minority languages in China in terms of their vitality can help decide what priorities are in securing the most endangered ethnic languages. In view of the actual condition of the Chinese ethnic languages, this paper proposes some corresponding comprehensive indexes and ranks over 100 ethnic languages of China in terms of their vitality.
minority languages in China, endangered languages, language vitality, ordering
doi:10.26478/ja2008.2.2.1
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