A Preliminary Study on the Vitality Ordering of Minority Languages in China

• 作者: Sun Hongkai
• 来源期刊: Macrolinguistics
• 学科: 社会科学
• 关键词: MINORITY LANGUAGES in China ENDANGERED LANGUAGES LANGUAGE VITALITY ORDERING
• 年，卷（期）: 2008,（1）
• 页码范围: 1-13
• 页数: 13页
• 分类号: G

摘要

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.