India not only is concerned with inevitable multilingualism, but also with the rights of many millions of speakers of minority languages. As the political and c
The 19th-century European notion of the one people-one language nation as the ideal state has been a very pervasive influence in spite of the fact that most cou
The increasing globalization and centralization in the world is threatening the existence of a large number of smaller languages. In South Asia some locally dom
The papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift. In the first part of th
The principles for enabling children to become fully proficient multilinguals through schooling are well known. Even so, most indigenous/tribal, minority and ma