The space of memory: language and culture of Portocannone, a small Albanian village in Italy : Gjaku Jone i Sheprishur (The Albanian Diaspora)

In 2000 two linguistic endangerment experts, Nettle and Romaine, estimated that among the world's 6000 languages, only about 600 could be considered safe today.

Language death researchers point with alarm to their data about the last speakers and the last testimonies of an increasingly larger number of vanishing languages.

Arbëresh, the language that Elsa Musacchio and Barbara Gabriella Renzi present to the readers in this volume, is one of the languages in danger of dying.