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Approximately half of all known languages have disappeared in the last 500 years. This text for graduate and professional linguists argues that the loss of linguistic diversity is just as threatening as the loss of global biodiversity.

Linguistic demography. --- Language maintenance. --- Language maintenance --- Language loyalty --- Maintenance of language --- Language death --- Obsolescence of languages --- Obsolescence --- Language obsolescence. --- Language and languages --- Sociolinguistics --- Historical linguistics --- Endangered languages --- Extinct languages --- Maintenance --- Areal linguistics.