Language endangerment is a fundamental issue for humanity. What
rights do minority communities have concerning their languages? How
does each language conceptualize the world differently? How much
knowledge about the world and a local ecosystem is lost when a
language disappears? What is the process involved and how can
insights about this process contribute to linguistic theory? What
typological insights will be lost if undescribed languages
disappear before their unique structural properties are known? How
can language shift be stopped or reversed? This volume comprises: *
a general overview introduction * four theoretical chapters on what
happens during language shift * ten case studies of autochthonous
languages under threat * four case studies of migrant languages at
risk * three concluding chapters discussing strategies and
resources for language maintenance.
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