Can Threatened Languages Be Saved?

Intro -- Contents -- The Contributors -- Preface Reversing Language Shift: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times -- Chapter 1 Why is it so Hard to Save a Threatened Language? -- Chapter 2 Reversing Navajo Language Shift, Revisited -- Chapter 3 How Threatened is the Spanish of New York Puerto Ricans? -- Chapter 4 A Decade in the Life of a Two-in-One Language -- Chapter 5 Reversing Language Shift in Quebec -- Chapter 6 Otomí Language Shift and Some Recent Efforts to Reverse It -- Chapter 7 Reversing Quechua Language Shift in South America -- Chapter 8 Irish Language Production and Reproduction 1981-1996 -- Chapter 9 A Frisian Update of Reversing Language Shift -- Chapter 10 Reversing Language Shift: The Case of Basque -- Chapter 11 Catalan a Decade Later -- Chapter 12 Saving Threatened Languages in Africa: A Case Study of Oko -- Chapter 13 Andamanese: Biological Challenge for Language Reversal -- Chapter 14 Akor Itak - Our Language, Your Language: Ainu in Japan -- Chapter 15 Hebrew After a Century of RLS Efforts -- Can the Shift from Immigrant Languages be Reversed in Australia? -- Chapter 17 Is the Extinction of Australia's Indigenous Languages Inevitable? -- Chapter 18 RLS in Aotearoa/New Zealand 1989-1999 -- Chapter 19 From Theory to Practice (and Vice Versa): Review, Reconsideration and Reiteration -- Index.

This book provides both practical case studies and theoretical directions from five continents and advances the collective pursuit of "reversing language shift" for the greater benefit of cultural democracy everywhere.

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