The People’s Linguistics Survey of India tries to give an idea of the extant and dying languages of India. It is the outcome of a nationwide survey of languages that has been documented by linguists, writers, social activists, and members of different speech communities. The Languages of West Bengal (volume thirty-one, part two) covers the languages that are spoken in the state of West Bengal, belonging to four different language families—Austroasiatic, Dravidian, Indo-European and Tibeto-Burman. The book not only documents the five Scheduled languages of West Bengal—Bangla, Bodo, Nepali, Santhali and Urdu, but also provides a detailed study of the twenty-three Non-Scheduled languages that are spoken in the state. What deserves special mention is that the volume also includes a chapter introducing the readers to nine endangered languages of North Bengal that are on the verge of extinction.