Table of Contents

1. Chapter 1. An introductory overview; 2. Chapter 2. Languages in contact and conflict I: Small languages and their maintenance; 3. Chapter 3. Languages in contact and conflict II: Language decline, revival and the 'new' ecology; 4. Chapter 4. Parochialism and intercourse; 5. Chapter 5. Towards a typology of minority-language settings; 6. Chapter 6. Irish; 7. Chapter 7. Gaelic in Scotland; 8. Chapter 8. Gaelic in Nova Scotia; 9. Chapter 9. Esperanto; 10. Epilogue; 11. References; 12. Index