Over 30% of the 7,400 languages in the world will no longer be spoken by the end of the
century. So far, however, our understanding of whether language extinction may result in the …

In Imprisoned in English, Anna Wierzbicka argues that in the present English-dominated
world, millions of people-including academics, lawyers, diplomats, and writers-can become" …

'Ecology,'the concept which made ecolinguistics possible, has its origin in the 19th century,
in which Charles Darwin looked at the 'evolution'of organisms and the development of …

Indonesia has an extreme diversity of linguistic wealth, with 707 languages by one count, or
731 languages and more than 1,100 dialects in another estimate, spoken by more than 600 …

This discussion note reviews responses of the linguistics profession to the grave issues of
language endangerment identified a quarter of a century ago in the journal Language by …

How can NLP/AI practitioners engage with oral societies and develop locally appropriate
language technologies? We report on our experience of working together over five years in …

How does a language community sustain their language in the face of ever-increasing
forces of language shift? This volume, both a textbook and a handbook, is the result of ten …

Māori identities continue to evolve and adapt as a result of social and environmental
changes Māori experience. Well-known markers of Māori identity including whakapapa …

Preface x language maintenance and development. From this discussion, the Alliance for
the Advancement of Heritage Languages was created, with a mission “to promote the …

Linguistics is the study of the human ability to produce and interpret language in speaking,
writing and signing (for the deaf). All languages and all varieties of every language …