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Hiroyuki Suzuki 2014. Brief introduction to the endangerment of Tibetic languages: Special reference to the language situation in Eastern Tibetan cultural area. Journal of Linguistic Studies 19(3), 281-301. This article provides a short introduction to the Tibetic languages which include varieties facing language endangerment because of various reasons. First, an overview of linguistic features of the Tibetic languages is given. Second, a detailed classification of language groups spoken in the eastern Tibetosphere and their linguistic situation are described. Third, current issues of the endangerment are discussed by presenting two specific cases of Melung Tibetan and Lhagang Tibetan, and finally some perspectives for the endangerment of Tibetic languages are presented. (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan)
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1. Introduction
2. Overview of the linguistic typology of the Tibetic languages
2.1 Morpho-syntactic features
2.2 Lexical varieties
2.3 Phonological traits
3. Tibetic languages in the eastern Tibetan cultural area
3.1 Overview of the area and languages
3.2 Detailed description on Southeastern Section
4. Current issues of the endangerment on the Tibetic languages
4.1 Difference of dialect study and dialectology
4.2 Two different cases of language endangerment
4.3 Some perspectives for the endangerment of Tibetic languages
5. Concluding remark
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