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Language extinction on an enormous scale has been occurring for over a century and has sped up dramatically in the last two decades.This book revolves around travels through the world's most linguistically diverse regions, taking a comparative approach to the contemporary status of minority languages in the post-web world.
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Figure 1: Bilingual English-Welsh signs
- Introduction: Minority Languages in the Age of Social Media
- Figure 2: Places visited by the author for this research
- Chapter 1 - 'Noisy neighbours': Transcending colonial borders in Senegambia
- Chapter 2 - 'Mountain of tongues': The Caucasian polyglossia
- Chapter 3 - Mama Tada: Language and landscape in the Ngabe comarca of Panama
- Chapter 4 - Invisible Lines in the Balkans: Gogs Ghegs, Hwntws and Tosks
- Chapter 5 - 'More than a language': The Tamil minority in contemporary Sri Lanka
- Chapter 6 - 'Xhosa Nostra': The intersection of language and politics in post-apartheid South Africa
- Chapter 7 - Moldovan Frontline: Tracing the margins of the USSR's Latin outpost
- Colour illustrations
- Chapter 8 - Y Wladfa: The inevitable Patagonian interlude
- Chapter 9 - 'Unity through diversity': Homage to Vanuatu
- Figure 3: An example of Bislama pidgin
- Conclusion: An antidote to exceptionalism?
- Endnotes
- Back cover