Review published In:
Language Problems and Language PlanningVol. 25:2 (2001) ► pp.192–201
Book review
. Language Death Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. x+198 pp. and. Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World’s Languages Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. x+241 pp.
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