Chapter 14. Akor Itak – Our Language, Your Language: Ainu in Japan

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. The Contributors vii
4. Preface xii
5. Chapter 1. Why is it so Hard to Save a Threatened Language? (A Perspective on the Cases that Follow) 1
6. The Americas
7. Chapter 2. Reversing Navajo Language Shift, Revisited 23
8. Chapter 3. How Threatened is the Spanish of New York Puerto Ricans? 44
9. Chapter 4. A Decade in the Life of a Two-in-One Language 74
10. Chapter 5. Reversing Language Shift in Quebec 101
11. Chapter 6. Otomí Language Shift and Some Recent Efforts to Reverse It 142
12. Chapter 7. Reversing Quechua Language Shift in South America 166
13. Europe
14. Chapter 8. Irish Language Production and Reproduction 1981–1996 195
15. Chapter 9. A Frisian Update of Reversing Language Shift 215
16. Chapter 10. Reversing Language Shift: The Case of Basque 234
17. Chapter 11. Catalan a Decade Later 260
18. Africa and Asia
19. Chapter 12. Saving Threatened Languages in Africa: A Case Study of Oko 284
20. Chapter 13. Andamanese: Biological Challenge for Language Reversal 309
21. Chapter 14. Akor Itak – Our Language, Your Language: Ainu in Japan 323
22. Chapter 15. Hebrew After a Century of RLS Efforts 350
23. The Pacific
24. Chapter 16. Can the Shift from Immigrant Languages be Reversed in Australia? 364
25. Chapter 17. Is the Extinction of Australia’s Indigenous Languages Inevitable? 391
26. Chapter 18. RLS in Aotearoa/New Zealand 1989–1999 423
27. Conclusions
28. Chapter 19. From Theory to Practice (and Vice Versa): Review, Reconsideration and Reiteration 451
29. Index 484