The aim of this book is to inform both scholars and the public about the nature and extent of the problem of language decline and death in Africa. It resourcefu

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully select

A thorough review of the worldwide problem of language endangerment and death.

This volume brings together a number of important perspectives on language documentation and endangerment in Africa from an international cohort of scholars wit

Languages are dying at an alarming rate all over the world. Estimates range from 50% to as much as 90% by the end of the century. This collection of original pa