Endangered Languages in the 21st Century

List of contributors

1. Foreword and Introduction by David Crystal

Section I: General state of endangered languages today in some large regions of the world: some good news

2. Michael Walsh: The rise and rise of Australian languages

3. Sebastian Drude, Joshua Birchall, Ana Vilacy Galucio Moreira, Denny Moore, Hein van der Voort: Endangered languages in Brazil in 2021

4. Hakim Elnazarov: Endangered languages of Central Asia: Challenges and prospects for development in the new millennium

5. Salem Mezhoud: They kill languages, don't they? - a short chronicle of planned language death in North Africa

6. Mary Jane Norris & Robert Adcock: First- and second-language speakers in the home: an Indigenous Canadian perspective

Section II: Theoretical approaches - supporting language maintenance

7. M. Paul Lewis: Sustaining language use: Bridging the gap between language communities and linguists

8. David Bradley: Language endangerment: what it is, how to measure it and how to act

9. Tjeerd de Graaf: The use of historical material for the safeguarding of endangered languages

10. Riitta Valijaervi & Lily Kahn: The role of new media in endangered language communities

11. Eda Derhemi: Examining change in endangered languages with some reference to Arberesh and Arvanitika

12. Christopher Moseley: Transnational languages in the Atlas of Endangered languages

13. Simon Musgrave & Nick Thieberger: Hypothetically speaking: Ethic in linguistic fieldwork, a provocation

Section III: Empirical studies: towards sustainable language maintenance and use

14. Rob Amery: Sustainable pathways for a fledgling language movement: the case of Kaurna of the Adelaide Plains, South Australia

15. Bernard Spolsky: The fate of Jewish languages competing with revitalised Hebrew

16. Peter Austin: Making 2,180 pages more useful: the Diyari dictionary of Rev. J. G. Reuther

17. David Nash: An unusual kind of loanshift: loan homonyms in some Australian endangered languages

18. Maya David: Sindhi Hindhus - a diasporic community: determining reasons for language shift and aligning it with revitalisation strategies

19. Marleen Haboud & Fernando Ortega: The Waotedodo language and the effects of intense contact

Index