How to Keep Your Language Alive: A Commonsense Approach to One-on-One Language Learning

A manual for students of all endangered languages, from Yurok to Yiddish, Washoe to Welsh.

Amid worldwide accounts of dying languages, author Leanne Hinton and a group of dedicated language activists are doing something about it: they have created a master-apprentice language program, a one-on-one approach that has been remarkably successful in ensuring new speakers will take the place of those, often elderly, who are fluent in an endangered language.

How to Keep Your Language Alive includes exercises that cancan and shouldbe done in the most ordinary of settings, written with great simplicity and directness by a member of the linguistics faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.