Languages in competition: Dominance, diversity, and decline. By Ronald Wardhaugh. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987. Pp. viii, 280. Cloth 45. 00, paper 16. 95.

Language dominance language diversity ethnic group, nation and state Great Britain France and Spain promoting English and French English and French in sub-Saharan Africa competition from Arabic and Swahili Belgium, Switzerland, and Canada old states, new pressures.