Language Endangerment in the Pacific. Grimes, J. E Oceanic Linguistics, 34(1):1–12, 1995. doi abstract bibtex Estimates of the number of first language speakers are available for most of the languages of the Pacific. Taken together, these reveal a pattern of size distribution may relate that to the inability of some languages to survive. The pattern is close to the log normal distribution, which characteristically results from multiple growth processes in which growth rate is independent of size. When language size distributions are compared to the theoretical curve, how- ever, the smaller languages deviate from the expected size at rates that show two points of maximum change. The higher appears to relate to potential en- dangerment and the lower to critical endangerment.
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abstract = {Estimates of the number of first language speakers are available for most of the languages of the Pacific. Taken together, these reveal a pattern of size distribution may relate that to the inability of some languages to survive. The pattern is close to the log normal distribution, which characteristically results from multiple growth processes in which growth rate is independent of size. When language size distributions are compared to the theoretical curve, how- ever, the smaller languages deviate from the expected size at rates that show two points of maximum change. The higher appears to relate to potential en- dangerment and the lower to critical endangerment.},
number = {1},
journal = {Oceanic Linguistics},
author = {Grimes, Joseph E},
year = {1995},
pages = {1--12},
}
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