Reddit reviews Bringing Our Languages Home: Language Revitalization for Families

>"Why bother preserving something nobody wants to speak?" is a question I often hear in relation to these languages.

And the answer to this question, which the post fails to address, is that it is not that people do not want to learn their language, it's that they were denied the opportunity to do so. I can't count the number of people I've met who would give anything to have had their parent pass on the language to them. But that didn't happen due to the now well known assimilation policies and boarding schools, and now the adult non-speaker is ashamed and angry, and their fluent speaker parent is ashamed and angry, and it's an emotional situation, and these languages are fucking hard to learn.

I wish the author would have done a bit more research (all of their links are to their own posts or broken) and at least had a couple of sentences that answer why there are people who devote themselves to learning their endangered heritage language.

There are great chapters by adult learners of endangered languages in Leanne Hinton's book Bringing Our Languages Home, for example.