RT Article
T1 Political Violence and Language Endangerment in Colombia
JF Terrorism and political violence
VO 35
IS 1
SP 118
OP 134
A1 Meernik, James David
A2 King, Kimi Lynn
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/183111044X
AB This paper develops an account of the relationship between language endangerment and conflict violence by combining insights from the fields of political science and linguistics. We develop a theoretical account of the manner in which the violence and disruption of community life jeopardizes the viability of communities that speak endangered languages. Our goals for this paper are to synthesize the contributions linguists and political scientists have made to the study of language endangerment and political violence; develop a theoretical account of language endangerment; and utilize statistical analysis to correlate factors related to political conflict and violence with language endangered communities. We test our theoretical model on language endangerment across the municipalities of Colombia and find support for our hypotheses.
K1 Civil War
K1 Colombia
K1 indigenous communities
K1 language endangerment
K1 Political Violence
DO 10.1080/09546553.2021.1876034