i-vi -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Linguistic minorities and literacy -- Minority languages and literacy -- Consequences of initiating literacy in the second language -- Literacy education for minorities: A case study from India -- The problem of minority languages in the overall linguistic problems of our time -- Linguistic minorities and language policy in Latin America: The case of Mexico -- China's minorities -- The concept of language standardisation and its application to the Indonesian language -- Linguistic minorities and national languages -- Literacy and minorities: Divergent perceptions -- Index