Frontmatter -- Contents -- Language situation and language policies in South -- Asia -- Status of lesser-known languages in India -- Minority language policies and politics in -- Nepal -- Language policy, multilingualism and language -- vitality in Pakistan -- Lesser-known language communities of South Asia: -- Linguistic and sociolinguistic case studies -- Vanishing voices: A typological sketch of Great -- Andamanese -- Lisu orthographies and email -- Shina in contemporary Pakistan -- The rise of ethnic consciousness and the -- politicization of language in west-central Nepal -- Why Ladakhi must not be written - Being part of the -- Great Tradition: Another kind of global thinking -- Information and communication technologies and -- languages of South Asia -- The impact of technology on language diversity and -- multilingualism -- The impact of technological advances on Tamil -- language use and planning -- Corpus-building for South Asian languages -- Digitized resources for languages of Nepal -- Multimedia: A community-oriented information and -- communication technology -- Language survival kits -- Grammatically based language technology for -- minority languages -- Supporting lesser-known languages: The promise of -- language technology -- Worrying about ethics and wondering about "informed -- consent": Fieldwork from an Americanist perspective -- Backmatter