Frontmatter -- Contents -- The Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Why is it so Hard to Save a Threatened Language? (A Perspective on the Cases that Follow) -- The Americas -- Chapter 2. Reversing Navajo Language Shift, Revisited -- Chapter 3. How Threatened is the Spanish of New York Puerto Ricans? -- Chapter 4. A Decade in the Life of a Two-in-One Language -- Chapter 5. Reversing Language Shift in Quebec -- Chapter 6. Otomí Language Shift and Some Recent Efforts to Reverse It -- Chapter 7. Reversing Quechua Language Shift in South America -- Europe -- Chapter 8. Irish Language Production and Reproduction 1981-1996 -- Chapter 9. A Frisian Update of Reversing Language Shift -- Chapter 10. Reversing Language Shift: The Case of Basque -- Chapter 11. Catalan a Decade Later -- Africa and Asia -- Chapter 12. Saving Threatened Languages in Africa: A Case Study of Oko -- Chapter 13. Andamanese: Biological Challenge for Language Reversal -- Chapter 14. Akor Itak - Our Language, Your Language: Ainu in Japan -- Chapter 15. Hebrew After a Century of RLS Efforts -- The Pacific -- Chapter 16. Can the Shift from Immigrant Languages be Reversed in Australia? -- Chapter 17. Is the Extinction of Australia's Indigenous Languages Inevitable? -- Chapter 18. RLS in Aotearoa/New Zealand 1989-1999 -- Conclusions -- Chapter 19. From Theory to Practice (and Vice Versa): Review, Reconsideration and Reiteration -- Index