Frontmatter -- Preface Contents Part I -- Social contexts of language death Theory of language death Codeswitching as a mechanism of deep borrowing, language shift, and language death Language decay and contact-induced change: Similarities and differences Part II -- East African case studies The fate of ethnic languages in Tanzania Language shift in Tanzania Reduction in Kore reconsidered Dahalo: An endangered language Language death and the origin of strata: Two case studies of Swahili dialects Chifundi and Vumba: Partial shift, no death Lexical retention in language shift: Yaaku/Mukogodo-Maasai and Elmolo/Elmolo-Samburu Dialect death: The case of Terik Language shift among the Suba of Kenya 175 years of language shift in Gweno Part III -- A survey on language death in Africa Names of scholars Subject index Index of languages (and variants) 447-448