I. Welsh -- Blue books -- Fire and fury -- Signs of change -- Bilingual nation -- Interlude : Afri-Can't -- II. Hawaiian -- The princess who was promised -- Sandwiched islands -- I Mua Kamehameha -- Ke Ea Hawaii -- Road closed due to desecration -- Interlude : the old, new tongue -- III. Cantonese -- Dialectics -- A Chinese alphabet -- Common tongue -- 'Cantonese gives you nasal cancer' -- Sounds of separatism -- Language plateau.

"James Griffiths reports from the frontlines of the battle to preserve minority languages, from his native Wales, Hawaii and indigenous American nations, to southern China and Hong Kong. He explores the revival of the Welsh language as a blueprint for how to ensure new generations are not robbed of their linguistic heritage, outlines how loss of indigenous languages is the direct result of colonialism and globalisation and examines how technology is both hindering and aiding the fight to prevent linguistic extinction" -- Taken from publisher's website.