Compares the views of Ostler who believes that languages need help, Malik who believes speakers should decide which languages should live and Howard who thinks that isolated languages will live despite isolation.

Describes methods for preserving languages among the Hezhen, Hani and all over China.

Young Hani speakers have learnt to write their own language using social messaging apps.

A national language recording project will "record 3,000 common words and 100 sentences in every endangered minority language."

Hezhen marrying Han Chinese has decreased the number of Hezhen speakers.

Gives reasons why New Zealand Māori should be taught in schools.

Compares the attitudes of minority language speakers in China with Korean speakers.

Presents a case study of why Cook Island Maori is disappearing and reasons and methods for promoting it.

Defines the different levels of language risk.

Describes how some languages have died and others have been revived around the world.

If speakers die and there is no recording then a language is gone.

"Every people has a right to their own language..."

The way we think is not shaped by our language.