"Its 18 chapters provide a wide-ranging snapshot of the state of endangered languages in the contemporary world – including a great deal of historical background – and the methods and practices that have come to characterize the effort to revive and maintain disadvantaged indigenous languages, and the challenges still to be faced. There are also new comparative narratives arising from large geographical areas in which linguistic endangerment has rarely or never been explored so comprehensively." 

David Crystal

Edited By Eda Derhemi, Christopher Moseley