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Part 1 Language shift - a preliminary analysis: what this book is aboutand why it is needed; why try to reverse language shift and is itreally possible to do so; "where" and "why" does language shift occurand how can it be reversed?; how threatened is threatened? Part 2 Casestudies - a baker's dozen from several continents. Part 3 Safeguardingthe future: on RLS-focused language planning and on dialect-standardissues and corpus planning in particular; the intergenerationaltransmission of "additional" languages for special purpose; limitationson school effectiveness in connection with mother tongue transmission;theoretical recapitulation.