Book notice: Language Diversity in the Pacific: Endangerment and Survival

[Harold F. Schiffman]

 Language Diversity in the Pacific: Endangerment and Survival

Multilingual Matters 2006

Editor: Denis Cunningham, Victorian School of Languages
Editor: D. E. Ingram, University of Melbourne
Editor: Kenneth Sumbuk, University of Papua New Guinea

The Southwest Pacific from Southern China through Indonesia, Australia and
the Pacific Islands constitutes the richest linguistic region of the
world.  That rich resource cannot be taken for granted. Some of its
languages have already been lost; many more are under threat. The
challenge is to describe the languages that exist today and to adopt
policies that will support their maintenance.

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