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