What is it about?
Perhaps as much as 90% of the languages in the world are or will be threatened during the 21st century, and many of them will disappear. But what are the keys to language survival? This volume studies the case of several languages that are not spoken by many millions of speakers but nevertheless seem serving developed societies and do not seem to be in danger in order to learn from them some lessons that may lead to a more sustainable model of global linguistic diversity.
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Why is it important?
This book may help language planers, managers, teachers and activists all around the world who want their languages to survive in the next century to identify some of the conditions they should meet if they want them. The case studies provide lots of inspiring ideas, and the final synthesis helps evaluating the goals that may be posed from a realistic stance.
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This page is a summary of: 1. The Analysis of Medium-Sized Language Communities, December 2012, Channel View Publications, Ltd.,
DOI: 10.21832/9781847698360-003.
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