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The 52 pages that link to Language documentation, each with the reason it gives.

• Language revitalizationRelated: Recordings and descriptions can support teaching where fluent speakers are few.

• PhonologyRelated: Phonological descriptions document a language’s sound contrasts and distribution patterns.

• Language endangermentRelated: Documentation preserves evidence of a language even when everyday use is shrinking.

• International Phonetic AlphabetRelated: IPA transcription helps document the sounds of languages without relying on their spelling systems.

• Language isolateRelated: Better records may reveal historical patterns that existing documentation cannot support.

• Edward SapirRelated: Sapir’s fieldwork exemplified careful documentation of languages with few surviving speakers.

• Endangered languageRelated: Documentation preserves evidence of a language, though it does not by itself restore everyday use.

• Linguistic typologyRelated: Typological surveys depend on reliable descriptions, especially for underdocumented languages.

• Proto-languageRelated: Documentation preserves evidence that may otherwise disappear before historical relationships can be assessed.

• Language deathRelated: Documentation preserves evidence of a language even when everyday transmission ends.

• Papuan languagesRelated: Better records are needed to compare many poorly documented Papuan languages.

• Indigenous languages of the AmericasRelated: Documentation supports scholarship and community goals, especially where fluent speakers are few.

• Indigenous language revitalizationRelated: Recordings and descriptions can support teaching, especially when fluent speakers are few.

• Khoisan languagesRelated: Documentation helps preserve evidence for poorly described languages included in the grouping.

• Language attritionRelated: Documentation can preserve evidence of forms and practices affected by language shift.

• Ryukyuan languagesRelated: Documentation preserves evidence of varieties with few remaining fluent speakers.

• Wu ChineseRelated: Documentation captures local Wu features that may be changing or disappearing.

• Joseph GreenbergRelated: Debates over classification underscore the importance of reliable, detailed evidence from individual languages.

• LadinoRelated: Documentation preserves evidence of Ladino varieties as fluent speakers become fewer.

• Linguistic diversityRelated: Documentation can improve knowledge of languages that remain poorly described or underrecorded.

• LinguisticsRelated: It preserves linguistic evidence and supports community language work.

• Linguistic reconstructionRelated: Better records preserve evidence that future historical reconstruction may otherwise lack.

• Dell HymesRelated: Hymes’s work with Indigenous languages informed his attention to speech practices and cultural context.

• DialectologyRelated: Dialect surveys preserve local forms that may be changing or disappearing.

• Inuit languagesRelated: Documentation records local forms and supports teaching and future research.

• LexicostatisticsRelated: Sparse or inconsistent records make reliable, comparable vocabulary lists difficult to assemble.

• Iroquoian languagesRelated: Documentation supports teaching and preserves linguistic knowledge across generations.

• Tungusic languagesRelated: Recordings and grammatical descriptions preserve evidence from smaller Tungusic languages.

• Xiang ChineseRelated: Documentation preserves the diversity of Xiang varieties beyond major urban forms.

• Chadic languagesRelated: Documentation is uneven across Chadic, especially for smaller and less-studied languages.

• Iñupiaq languageRelated: Documentation preserves records of Iñupiaq speech and supports teaching and research.

• Tuvaluan languageRelated: Documentation preserves Tuvaluan speech and supports research on its dialects and structure.

• EthnolinguisticsRelated: It can preserve linguistic evidence, though documentation alone need not interpret cultural meaning.

• Lyle CampbellRelated: It connects Campbell’s scholarship to the preservation and study of endangered languages.

• Emil KrebsRelated: Krebs’s language notes connect individual study with the preservation of linguistic information.

• Ghil'ad ZuckermannRelated: Documentation can provide resources for communities undertaking language reclamation.

• History of linguisticsRelated: Its growth responds to language shift and changes the field’s preservation priorities.

• Language geographyRelated: Geographic surveys help locate language communities and identify where documentation is urgent.

• Linguistic descriptionRelated: Documentation preserves the evidence from which descriptive accounts can be built.

• Luba-KatangaRelated: Documentation can preserve Kiluba speech and support linguistic study.

• Peter LadefogedRelated: His recordings and descriptions helped make phonetic evidence available for languages with limited documentation.

• Sukuma languageRelated: Documentation preserves Sukuma varieties and supports linguistic study.

• Swazi languageRelated: Documentation preserves evidence of siSwati varieties and supports linguistic study.