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The Oxford Handbook Of Endangered Languages, In Thirty-nine Chapters, Provides A Comprehensive Overview Of The Efforts That Are Being Undertaken To Deal With This Crisis. Its Purposes Are (1) To Provide A Reasonably Comprehensive Reference Volume, With The Scope Of The Volume As A Whole Representing The Breadth Of The Field; (2) To Highlight Both The Range Of Thinking About Language Endangerment And The Variety Of Responses To It; And (3) To Broaden Understanding Of Language Endangerment, Language Documentation, And Language Revitalization, And, In So Doing, To Encourage And Contribute To Fresh Thinking And New Findings In Support Of Endangered Languages. Comparative Analysis In Language Revitalization Practices: Addressing The Challenge / Gabriela Pã¢erez Bã¢aez, Rachel Vogel, Eve Okura -- Endangered Sign Languages: An Introduction / James Woodward -- Language Contact And Language Endangerment / Sarah G. Thomason -- Design And Implementation Of Collaborative Language Documentation Projects / Racquel-marã¢ia Sapiã¢en -- Tools And Technology For Language Documentation And Revitalization / Keren Rice, Nicholas Thieberger -- Corpus Compilation And Exploitation In Language Documentation Projects / Ulrike Mosel -- Writing Grammars Of Endangered Languages / Amber Camp, Lyle Campbell, Victoria Chen, Nala H. Lee, Matt Magnuson, Samantha Rarrick -- Compiling Dictionaries Of Endangered Languages / Kenneth L. Rehg -- Orthography Design And Implementation For Endangered Languages / Michael Cahill -- Language Archiving / Andrea L. Berez-kroeker, Ryan Henke -- Tools From The Ethnography Of Communication For Language Documentation / Simeon Floyd -- Language Documentation In Diaspora Communities / Daniel Kaufman, Ross Perlin -- Ethics In Language Documentation And Revitalization / Jeff Good -- Approaches To And Strategies For Language Revitalization / Leanne Hinton -- The Linguistics Of Language Revitalization: Problems Of Acquisition And Attrition / William O'grady -- New Medi