David Crystal. Language Death. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. x+198 pp. andDaniel Nettle & Suzanne Romaine. Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World’s Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. x+241 pp.

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Luisa Maffi

Published online: 21 January 2002

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