sleeping languages, English, Cornish, Miami-Illinois, Mati Ke, language revitalization

The paper is an outcome of a long-term project entitled Past, Present, and Future Prospects of Indigenous Language Maintenance and Renewal. The main goal of the project is to map the global debate on the endangerment and revitalization of the world?s languages and cultures, with the research focus put on the situation in (former) British territories, where the status of English is an important factor contributing to the dynamics in the modification of language and cultural diversity. The present treatise brings to the fore examples from three continents: Europe (Cornish), North America (Miami-Illinois), and Australia (Mati Ke).