SUSANNA PERTOT is a Researcher at the Slovene Research Institute, Trieste, Italy. TOM PRIESTLY is Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Canada. COLIN H. WILLIAMS is Research Professor, School of Welsh, Cardiff University, UK. The editors combine expertise on minority languages questions from three different perspectives, Susanna Pertot: Bilingualism, Education and Identity, with emphasis on Slovenes in Italy; Tom Priestly: Language Usage and Ethnolinguistic Identity, with emphasis on the Slovenes in Austria; and Colin Williams: Minority Rights, Legal Issues and Geolinguistics, with emphasis on Welsh.