Can Threatened Languages be Saved?: Reversing Language Shift, Revisited : a 21st Century PerspectiveDefenders of threatened languages all over the world, from advocates of biodiversity to dedicated defenders of their own cultural authenticity, are often humbled by the dimensity of the task that they are faced with when the weak and the few seek to find a safe-harbour against the ravages of the strong and the many. This book provides both practical case studies and theoretical directions from all five continents and advances thereby the collective pursuit of "reversing language shift" for the greater benefit of cultural democracy everywhere. |
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Why is it so Hard to Save a Threatened Language? | 1 |
Africa and Asia | 18 |
The Americas | 23 |
How Threatened is the Spanish of New York Puerto Ricans? | 44 |
A Decade in the Life of a TwoinOne Language | 74 |
Reversing Language Shift in Quebec | 101 |
Otomí Language Shift and Some Recent Efforts to Reverse | 142 |
Reversing Quechua Language Shift in South America | 166 |
Catalan a Decade Later | 260 |
A Case Study of | 284 |
Biological Challenge for Language Reversal | 309 |
Ainu in Japan | 323 |
Hebrew After a Century of RLS Efforts | 350 |
The Pacific | 364 |
Is the Extinction of Australias Indigenous Languages | 391 |
RLS in AotearoaNew Zealand 19891999 | 423 |
Europe | 195 |
A Frisian Update of Reversing Language Shift | 215 |
The Case of Basque | 234 |
Conclusions | 451 |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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