Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage (VLACH)

Published as a volume within the VLACH (Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage) series, this book represents the first in-depth sociolinguistic analysis of the Vlach community living in Eastern Serbia and of the language spoken by this community, Vlach Romanian. By integrating advances in the fields of language ideology, the online use of minority languages, linguistic landscape research, and language policy and planning, the book offers the reader a multi-faceted image of the state, status,...

This book is a unique collection of narratives in Mixe, a language of the Mixe-Zoquean group spoken in the Sierra Norte, state of Oaxaca, Mexico. This collection of texts, never before published, is a testimony to this language and culture and arose from the field work undertaken by the author in Mixe communities of the Sierra Norte in 2018 and 2019. The book contains introductory materials, texts in Mixe, Spanish, and English, and vocabularies of three Mixe varieties. Two of these varieties...

The present book is concerned with the language and culture of the Boyash "Gypsies" in southern Hungary, who speak archaic dialects of Romanian and call themselves "băiaşi". Their varieties may be regarded as endangered, with the spoken vernaculars, Arĝelean and Munĉan, suffering different degrees of loss. The Munĉan vernacular investigated in the village of Alsószentmárton is most probably in the second stage of loss, during which the language of the majority increasingly spreads into the...