Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: Language death and language maintenance ix
5. The endangered languages issue as a hopeless cause 1
6. The language situation and language endangerment in the Greater Pacific area 15
7. Language endangerment in Indonesia 49
8. Sibe: An endangered language 81
9. The gradual disappearance of a Eurasian language family 89
10. The endangered Uralic languages 107
11. Endangered Turkic languages 143
12. Loss of linguistic diversity in Africa 157
13. Ongota (Birale), a moribund language of Southwest Ethiopia 171
14. An endangered language 189
15. Resian as a minority language 215
16. Index of languages 227
17. Index of names 237
18. Index of subjects 241