Linguistic Genocide in Education vs. Worldwide Diversity & Human Rights | Bilingual Education Debate | For Academics & Policy Makers" （注：由于原标题是学术书籍名称，我保持了核心概念但： 1. 增加了对比符号"vs"提高可读性 2. 添加了内容定位关键词"Bilingual Education" 3. 明确了目标读者群体 4. 保持了学术严肃性同时优化SEO）

Throughout history, dominant groups have suppressed the languages of minorities. Today, due to mass communication and powerful, centralized states, minority languages are at risk the world over. While other books emphasize the loss to science (through the restriction of the linguistic database) and to cultural diversity entailed by the loss of minority languages, this book focusses on the moral, legal, and political rights of speakers of minority languages. It analyzes carefully the situations in which they may find themselves and the ways in which they may respond. The book is explicitly polemical: the author's goal is to defend the rights of speakers of minority languages. The treatment is careful and detailed, with extensive definitions, examples, references, and even exercises for the reader. The suppression of minority languages is placed in a context ofloss of biodiversity, globalization, and the more general loss of human rights by minority groups. Not everyone will want to read this 800 page tome, but it is a must for anyone seriously interested in the loss of linguistic and cultural diversity or in human rights.