Language Demography

Language Demography presents exemplifies and develops linguistic concepts involved in demography and the demographic concepts involved in sociolinguistics. The first introductory guide of its kind it is presented in a way that is accessible to non-specialists. The book includes numerous examples of the sources and types of data used in this field as well as the various factors affecting language demography. Taking a global perspective supported by examples it gives explanations of how demolinguistic analyses are performed and their main applications in relation to minority and majority languages.Language Demography will be of interest to students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds from linguistics and modern languages to sociology anthropology and human geography.