title: Endangered Languages: Language Loss and Community Response
author: Lenore Grenoble
description: "This fine collection of papers is a worthy addition to the literature on language endangerment and obsolescence, which has been growing exponentially in recent years. For anyone interested in language contact, language obsolescence, and language shift (death), Endangered Languages is filled with much of value on this topical and important subject. Grenoble and Whaley are to be sincerely thanked for editing this collection." Anthropological Linguistics<br /><br />"This volume is a vital addition to the literature supporting this important and growing movement within the field of linguistics and indigenous communities." Leanne Hinton, Language in Society<br /><br />"...to approach this collection from the standpoint of a linguistic typologist is an enlightening task in itself: it forces a constructive engagement with material that the authors have put together with other ends in view...most of the contributions contain lingusitic descriptions, as illustations or evidence, which are detailed enough to interest formal analysts of linguistic diversity in their own right." Linguistic Typology
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  Language Use and Maintenance of Non-
  indigenous Minorities: The British-Moroccans
  Abdeslam Jamai
  Taiba University, Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah
  This study investigates language use and maintenance among a non-indigenous minority in Britain with a view to finding
  out what role English plays in their lives, whether they still use their languages of origin, and what are the reasons for their
  particular language behaviour. Language use and maintenance in a non-indigenous minority setting is important if one is
  to understand some of the factors involved in the community’s integration process, or the lack of it. Minority communities
  adopt a number of linguistic strategies for communication. In most cases, these linguistic strategies are dictated by both
  the social and linguistic environment the non-indigenou