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Endangered Languages

A language dies, on average, every two weeks. Within a century, between 50 and 90 percent of human linguistic diversity will be gone. The catastrophe is...

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A language dies, on average, every two weeks. Within a century, between 50 and 90 percent of human linguistic diversity will be gone. The catastrophe is well-documented and largely unstoppable. Key sections include: End ang ered.; Opening The half that vanishes.; Chapter I What endangerment means.; Chapter II Krauss's alarm.; Chapter III How many, where.; Chapter IV Eyak: the last speaker.; Chapter V How a language dies.; Chapter VI Hebrew: the impossible case.; Chapter VII Hawaiian: from 2,000 to 18,000.; Chapter VIII Welsh: held at half a million..

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  1. 01End ang ered.
  2. 02Opening The half that vanishes.
  3. 03Chapter I What endangerment means.
  4. 04Chapter II Krauss's alarm.
  5. 05Chapter III How many, where.
  6. 06Chapter IV Eyak: the last speaker.
  7. 07Chapter V How a language dies.
  8. 08Chapter VI Hebrew: the impossible case.
  9. 09Chapter VII Hawaiian: from 2,000 to 18,000.
  10. 10Chapter VIII Welsh: held at half a million.
  11. 11Chapter IX Māori: kōhanga reo and the language nest.
  12. 12Chapter X Documentary linguistics.
  13. 13Chapter XI The fieldworker's toolkit.
  14. 14Chapter XII What is in a small language.
  15. 15Chapter XIII Australia: the worst case.
  16. 16Chapter XIV The Americas.
  17. 17Chapter XV Pacific and Asia.
  18. 18Chapter XVI Africa: more stable than expected.
  19. 19Chapter XVII Europe's minorities.
  20. 20Chapter XVIII Sleeping languages and reawakening.
  21. 21Chapter XIX Why save languages.
  22. 22Chapter XX What revitalisation actually does.
  23. 23Chapter XXI Technology, for and against.
  24. 24Chapter XXII The people who do this.
  25. 25Chapter XXIII The shelf.
  26. 26Chapter XXIV Watch and read.
  27. 27Chapter XXV A working vocabulary.
  28. 28Chapter XXVI What actually works.
  29. 29Chapter XXVII The next century.
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII The case.
  31. 31The end of the deck.
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2026-05-15
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