Books on Endangered Languages

A selection of recommended books on endangered languages:

Abley, Mark 2003 Spoken Here: Travels among Threatened Languages. Heinemann

Austin, Peter K. 2008 1,000 Languages. Thames and Hudson

Crystal, David 2000 Language Death. Cambridge University Press

Dalby, Andrew 2002 Language in Danger: How language loss threatens our future. Penguin

Dixon, RMW 1997 The Rise and Fall of Languages. Cambridge University Press

Dorian, Nancy 1981 Language Death. The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect. University of Philadelphia Press

Evans, Nicholas 2009 Dying Words: Endangered Languages and what they have to tell us. Malden and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Fishman, Joshua 1991 Reversing Language Shift: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Assistance to Threatened Languages. Multilingual Matters

Fishmann, Joshua (ed.) 2001 Can Threatened Languages be Saved?. Multilingual Matters.

Gippert, Jost, Nikolaus Himmelmann & Ulrike Mosel (eds.) 2006. Essentials of language documentation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Grenoble, Lenore A and Lindsay Whaley (2006) Saving languages. An introduction to language revitalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Grenoble, Lenore A and Lindsay Whaley (eds) 1998 Endangered Languages: Language Loss and Community Response. Cambridge University Press

Hagège, Claude 2001 Halte à la mort des langues. Edition Odile Jacob

Harrison, K. David 2007 When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge. Oxford University Press.

Harrison, K. David 2010 The Last Speakers. National Geographic.

McWorter, John 2001 The Power of Babel. Basic Books

Nettle, Daniel and Suzanne Romaine 2000 Vanishing Voices. Oxford University Press

Robins, Robert H. and Eugenius Uhlenbeck (eds) 1991 Endangered Languages. Oxford: Berg.