Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. Introduction: Language death and language maintenance: Problems and prospects (by Janse, Mark); 3. The endangered languages issue as a hopeless cause (by Newman, Paul); 4. The language situation and language endangerment in the Greater Pacific area (by Wurm, Stephen A.); 5. Language endangerment in Indonesia: The incipient obsolescence and acute death of Teun, Nila and Serua (Central and Southwest Maluku) (by Engelenhoven, Aone van); 6. Sibe: An endangered language (by Stary, Giovanni); 7. The gradual disappearance of a Eurasian language family: The case of Yeniseyan (by Georg, Stefan); 8. The endangered Uralic languages (by Blokland, Rogier); 9. Endangered Turkic languages: The case of Gagauz (by Menz, Astrid); 10. Loss of linguistic diversity in Africa (by Mous, Maarten); 11. Ongota (Birale), a moribund language of Southwest Ethiopia (by Sava, Graziano); 12. An endangered language: The Gurdun language of the Southern Bauchi Area, Nigeria (by Haruna, Andrew); 13. Resian as a minority language (by Steenwijk, Han); 14. Index of languages; 15. Index of names; 16. Index of subjects

Reviews

[...] an excellent collection. More works of this kind are needed if we are to get true grasp of the magnitude and extent of the endangered language issue.
*Mike Cahill on Linguist List 14-824, July 2003*