Can Threatened Languages Be Saved: Reversing Language Shift, Revisited 
Subtitle: A 21st Century Perspective (Multilingual Matters)
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Published: April 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 503
ISBN-13: 9781853594939
Subjects: Bilingualism & multilingualism; Sociolinguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Linguistics; Language attrition
First sentence: The recent well-justified alarm that many thousands of languages (a very high proportion indeed of all those now in existence) are dying and that thousands more are destined to die out during the first half of this century, important though it is, is not the immediate issue which this book seeks to address.