A Journal I recently learned about

[Harold F. Schiffman]

Members of this list may not know (as I didn't) of the existence of the
journal MOST: Journal on Multicultural Societies ISSN 1564-4901 UNESCO

This journal is published by Unesco and has a number of issues devoted to
linguistic minority and policy issues, including the most recent one.

The URL for the journal is: http://www.unesco.org/most/jmshome.htm

The latest issue, Protecting Endangered Minority Languages:
Sociolinguistic Perspectives Vol. 4, No. 2, 2002, is edited by Eda
Derhemi, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois at
U-C

Table of Contents:

                   Editorial by Matthias Koenig

	Thematic Introduction by Eda Derhemi (Guest-Editor)

                   Colonisation, Globalisation, and the Future of
Languages in the Twenty-first Century by Salikoko Mufwene

                   The Impact of Language Policy on Endangered Languages
by Suzanne Romaine

                   Minority Matters: Issues in Minority Languages in India
by Rajeshwari Pandharipande

                   Uchumataqu: Research in Progress on the Bolivian
Altiplano by Pieter Muysken

                   The Endangered Arbresh Language and the Importance of
Standardised Writing for its Survival: The Case of Piana degli Albanesi,
Sicily by Eda Derhemi

                   Endangered Minority Languages: Prospects for
Sociolinguistic Research by Joshua Fishman

The previous issue, vol. 3, no. 2, is also devoted to language policy
issues:  "The Human Rights of Linguistic Minorities and Language Policies"

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Hal Schiffman

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			  Harold F. Schiffman

Professor of Dravidian Linguistics and Culture                       Director
Dept. of South Asia Studies                     Pedagogical Materials Project,
820 Williams Hall, Box 6305                South Asia Language Resource Center

			University of Pennsylvania
			Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

       			Phone:  (215) 898-5825
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			Email:  haroldfs at ccat.sas.upenn
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