Losing Languages and Species

<P>I would like to suggest following readings for the next week's
class. The topic would be drawing comparisons between extinction of
the species and the languages. Including current efforts focussed at
conserving bio, cultural and linguistic diversity under one hood.

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1. Diversity, competition, extinction: the ecophysics of language change   RV Solé - 2010,  J. R. Soc. Interface
<BR><A HREF="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/publiccs/rsif.2010.0110.full.pdf">
rsif.2010.0110.full.pdf</A>
<BR>2. Parallel extinction risk and global distribution of languages and species. William J. Sutherland, Nature 423, 2003
<BR><A HREF=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v423/n6937/pdf/nature01607.pdf>nature01607.pdf</A>
<BR>3.Index of Biocultural diversity IBCD  
<BR><A HREF=http://www.terralingua.org/projects/ibcd/Discussion.html>
http://www.terralingua.org/projects/ibcd/Discussion.html</A>
<BR>4. <A HREF=http://www.terralingua.org/publications/Maffi/Harmon&Maffi.ConsBioPract.pdf>
http://www.terralingua.org/publications/Maffi/Harmon&Maffi.ConsBioPract.pdf</A>
<BR>5. Endangered Languages and Endangered Knowledge 
<BR><A HREF=http://www.terralingua.org/publications/Maffi/ENDANGE2.pdf>
http://www.terralingua.org/publications/Maffi/ENDANGE2.pdf</A>
<BR>6. Human language as a culturally transmitted replicator 
<BR><A HREF=http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v10/n6/full/nrg2560.html> 
http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v10/n6/full/nrg2560.html</A>

<P>Terralingua is an organization interested in studying
biocultural/linguistic diversity, discovering hotspots and devising
metrics to grade the diversity in a region.
<BR><A HREF=http://www.terralingua.org>
http://www.terralingua.org</A>

<P>For those who are interested in genetic distance & linguistic affinities between indigenous populations.
<BR><A HREF=http://www.friesian.com/trees.htm>
http://www.friesian.com/trees.htm</A>