Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Language Endangerment Throughout the World IX
5. Chapter 1. Classification and Terminology for Degrees of Language Endangerment 1
6. Chapter 2. Threatened Languages in Hispanic South America 9
7. Chapter 3. Endangered Languages of Lowland Tropical South America 29
8. Chapter 4. Endangered Languages of Mexico and Central America 59
9. Chapter 5. Endangered Languages in USA and Canada 87
10. Chapter 6. Language Endangerment in Northern Africa 123
11. Chapter 7. Endangered Languages in West Africa 140
12. Chapter 8. Endangered Languages in Central Africa 163
13. Chapter 9. Language Endangerment in Southern and Eastern Africa 179
14. Chapter 10. Endangered Languages in Europe 205
15. Chapter 11. Language Endangerment in the CIS 233
16. Chapter 12. Endangered Languages of the Middle East 263
17. Chapter 13. Language Endangerment in China and Mainland Southeast Asia 278
18. Chapter 14. Endangered Languages of South Asia 303
19. Chapter 15. Warramurrungunji Undone: Australian Languages in the 51st Millennium 342
20. Chapter 16. Threatened Languages in the Western Pacific Area from Taiwan to, and Including, Papua New Guinea 374
21. Chapter 17. The Languages of the Pacific Region: the Austronesian Languages of Oceania 391
22. Names Index 411
23. General Index 419
24. Language Names Index 422