Front matter -- Introduction: Exploring an overlooked sociolinguistic phenomenon (The First Congress for Language X) / Fishman, Joshua A. -- The First Language Congress for Afrikaans / Holliday, Lloyd -- The Academic Conference on the Reform of Belorussian Orthography and Alphabet (Minsk 1926): A unique non-event? / Wexler, Paul -- The First International Catalan Language Congress, Barcelona, 13-18 October, 1906 / Castell, Joan Martí i -- Integration vs. particularism: The undeclared issue at the first "Dutch Congress" in 1849 / Willemyns, Roland -- The First Congress for Hebrew, or When is a congress not a congress? / Glinert, Lewis -- The First Congress of Hindi / Mehrotra, Raja Ram -- The first efforts to promote and develop Indonesian / Moeliono, Anton M. -- The emergence of the Korean script as a symbol of Korean identity / Haarmann, Harald -- The first philological conference for the establishment of the Macedonian alphabet and the Macedonian literary language: Its precedents and consequences / Friedman, Victor A. -- The First Congress for Malay / Omar, Asmah Haji -- The First Congress of Mayan Languages of Guatemala (1949) / Richards, Julia Becker -- Language purism and propaganda: The First Congress for Polish / Janicki, Karol / Jaworski, Adam -- The First Workshop on Quechua and Aymara Writing / Hornberger, Nancy H. -- The First Congress for Tok Pisin in 1973 / Wurm, S. A. -- The First |