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Language death in Maluku; The impact of the VOC

Year: 2003

Type: article

Abstract: Any aborigines were simply pests to be removed ... The Tasmanians were shot where they were found, or rounded up into prison camps, where the survivors languished in miserable conditions. The last of them, a woman called Trucanini, who had been raped by the white convicts and then used by the authorities as a pawn to bring her people in, died in 1876. A unique branch on the tree of the world's languages was thus destroyed along with its people.

Source: Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia

DOI: 10.1163/22134379-90003745

Author: James T. Collins

Institution: Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies

Language: Dutch

Topic: Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies

Subfield: Linguistics and Language

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W607955950

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Cites: 14

Cited by: 73

Related to: 10