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The Green Book of Language Revitalization in Practice.

Leanne Hinton
and
Kenneth Hale.

(Editors.) (2001).

This book is simply amazing. It presents 23 different case studies authored by people directly involved in language revitalization programs. The book spans a multitude of topics from Federal Language Policy in the United States to Master-Apprentice Programs to Audio-Visual Documentation. This book is going to be essential to any language revitalization project. The editors present these papers in a way that anyone would be able to use the information, no matter what language you were trying to revitalize (as long as you can read English). The citations and resources by each author alone would be worth the cost of this book.

Paper and Talk: A Manual for Reconstituting Materials in Australian Indigenous Languages from Historical Sources.

Canberra, ACT: Aboriginal Studies Press.

Nicholas Thieberger.

(1993).

This excellent resource discusses the issues of language reconstruction, which is a process of taking old ethnographies, lexicons, historical sources, etc. and make them useful for contemporary language revitalization programs. The book is very easy to read and also includes exercises for the reader to put these practices into immediate use. This topic is useful for people whose language is near death to people who are mostly fluent. The process of finding historical sources in a native language and re-interpreting them is important because there are important meanings that were lost in translation by ethnographers when they were writing.

Language Endangerment and Language Revitalization: An Introduction.

Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter.

Tsunoda, Tasaku.

(2006).

This book examines the different "degrees" of language loss. It gives definitions of language death as well as the different types of language death. Tsunoda presents this book in a very scientific manner in that he breaks down the causes, different speech behaviors, types of speakers in "endangerment situations" and structural change in endangered languages. This book is geared more toward scholars interested in documenting endangered languages as well as helping in the revitalization of these languages. I think that this book will be an important reference for advanced language revitalization efforts.

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