Frontmatter -- Dedication to Professor Stephen A. Wurm -- Contents -- Foreword -- Editors' Note -- 1. Language Diversity in the Pacific: Endangerment and Survival: An Overview -- 2. World Languages Review: Some Data -- 3. Naming Languages, Drawing Language Boundaries and Maintaining Languages with Special Reference to the Linguistic Situation in Papua New Guinea -- 4. Obstacles to Creating an Inventory of Languages in Indonesia: A Dialectology Perspective -- 5. Keeping Track of Indigenous Language Endangerment in Australia -- 6. Papua New Guinea's Languages: Will They Survive? -- 7. Language Endangerment and Globalisation in the Pacific -- 8. Endangered Languages of China and South-East Asia -- 9. On the Edge of the Pacific: Indonesia and East Timor -- 10. The Future of the Languages of Vanuatu and New Caledonia -- 11. Trends and Shifts in Community Language Use in Australia, 1986-1996 -- 12. Directions for Linguistic Research: Forging Partnerships in Language Development and Expansion of the Domains of Use of Australia's Indigenous Languages -- 13. The Contribution of Language Education to the Maintenance and Development of Australia's Language Resources -- 14. Globalisation, Languages and Technology: Some Recommendations -- The Contributors