Bibliography

We have published 12 conference proceedings, all of which focus on specific issues related to endangered languages.

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Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us, by Nicholas Evans (Hardcover, expected April 2009)

When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge, by K. David Harrison (Paperback – July 24, 2008)

Language Death, by David Crystal (Paperback, 2002)

Halte à la mort des langues, by Claude Hagège (French paperback, 2002 – strong on history)

Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages, by Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine (Paperback - May 16, 2002 – stressing links with environmentalism), reviewed in Ogmios 15

Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle, by Daniel Everett (Paperback – November 6, 2008)

Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages, by Mark Abley (Paperback - April 4, 2005), reviewed in Ogmios 23

Mother Tongues: Travels Through Tribal Europe, by Helena Drysdale (Paperback - October 11, 2002), reviewed in Ogmios 18, pp. 22-23

Endangered Languages, by Veronica Grondona and Sarah Thomason (Paperback - March 1, 2008)

Vanishing Languages of the Pacific Rim, by Osahito Miyaoka, Osamu Sakiyama, and Michael E. Krauss (editors) (Hardcover – 2007)

Language Endangerment and Language Revitalization: an Introduction, by Tasaku Tsunoda (Paperback - February 1, 2006)

Bedrohte Vielfalt: Aspekte des Sprach(en)tods /Aspects of language death, by Jan Wohlgemuth, Tyko Dirksmeyer (editors) (German/English paperback – 2005)

Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance, by David and Maya Bradley (Hardcover - August 2, 2002), reviewed in Ogmios 21, pp. 21-22

Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties, by Kendall King, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Lyn Wright Fogle, and Jia Jackie Lou  (editors) (Paperback - April 15, 2008)

Saving Languages: An Introduction to Language Revitalization, by Lenore A. Grenoble and Lindsay J. Whaley (Paperback – November 3, 2005)

The Green Book of Language Revitalization in Practice: Toward a Sustainable World, by Leanne Hinton (editor) and Kenneth Hale (editor) (Paperback - November 5, 2001)

Paper and Talk, by Nick Thieberger (Aboriginal Studies Press, Paperback – 1995)

Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages (Curzon Language Family Series), by Christopher Moseley (ed.)  (Hardcover - April 23, 2007)

Language Diversity Endangered (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 181) Matthias Brenzinger (ed.) (Paperback – January 1, 2008)

Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger of Disappearing, by Stephen Wurm (ed.) (Paperback – UNESCO 2001; new edition, by Christopher Moseley ed, expected 2009)

Discourses of Endangerment: Interest and Ideology in the Defense of Languages (Advances in Sociolinguistics), by Alexandre Duchene and Monica Heller (Hardcover - March 1, 2007), reviewed in Ogmios 35, p. 13

Language Rights and Language Survival, by Jane Freeland and Donna Patrick (editors) (Hardcover – 2004), reviewed in Ogmios 25

Endangered Languages, by R.H. Robins and E.M. Uhlenbeck (eds.) 1991. Oxford: Berg

Studies in Endangered Languages, by Kazuto Matsumura ed, Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo 1998, reviewed in Ogmios 15

Endangered Languages: Language Loss and Community Response, by Lenore A. Grenoble and Lindsay J. Whaley (Paperback - March 28, 1998)

Empires of the Word: a language history of the world, by Nicholas Ostler (Paperback – September 18, 2006)

One Thousand Languages: Living, Endangered, and Lost, by Peter K. Austin (Hardcover - August 2008)