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This chapter of the book deals with all the other languages of the world, languages that are neither the official language of a state, a region or a province nor important trading languages or intergroup lingua francas. This is an enormous topic because most of the world’s 7000 1 or so languages fall into this category. And most of these can be considered in danger.
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Wright, S. (2016). Endangered Languages. In: Language Policy and Language Planning. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-57647-7_12
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