Frontmatter -- Contents -- Pluricentric Languages - Introduction -- Portuguese as a pluricentric language -- Spanish as a pericentric language -- Is Dutch a pluricentric language? -- Multiple centres of language development - the case of Tamil -- Swedish as a pluricentric language -- German as a pluricentric language -- French as a pluricentric language -- English as a pluricentric language -- Korean as a pluricentric language -- Is Arabic a pluricentric language? -- Chinese as a plurícentric language -- Amēn teł hay kay: Armenian as a pluricentric language -- Serbo-Croatian as a pluricentric language -- Hindi-Urdu as a pluricentric Language -- Malay as a pluricentric language -- Pacific Pidgin Englishes -- Macedonian as an Ausbau language -- Epilogue -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names -- 482