Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages - Mark Abley - Bücher - Mariner Books - 9780618565832 - 4. April 2005
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In Spoken Here, Mark Abley takes us on a world tour from the Arctic Circle to Oklahoma to Australia in a fervent quest to document some of the world's most endangered languages. His mission is urgent: Of the six thousand languages spoken in the world today, only six hundred may survive into the next century. Abley visits the exotic and frequently remote locales that are home to fading languages and constructs engaging and entertaining portraits of some of the last living speakers of these tongues. Throughout this exhilarating travelogue, he points out that the same forces that put biological species at risk -- development, globalization, loss of habitat -- are also threatening human languages, and with them, something very basic about their speakers' cultures.

Medien Bücher     Taschenbuch   (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken)
Erscheinungsdatum 4. April 2005
ISBN13 9780618565832
Verlag Mariner Books
Seitenanzahl 336
Maße 142 × 210 × 21 mm   ·   421 g
Sprache Englisch  

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