Deals with challenges to the maintenance of minority (or community) languages in this era of globalization and increasing transnational movements of people. The

In the last three decades the field of endangered and minority languages has evolved rapidly, moving from the initial dire warnings of linguists to a swift incr

The papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift. In the first part of th

This book gives fresh insight into the diverse ways in which the transmission of minority and heritage languages is carried out in a range of sociolinguistic co

​This book presents research on the situation minority language schoolchildren face when they need to learn languages of international communication, in parti