Spoken Here : Travels among Threatened Languages

English

ISBN: 0618565833

EAN: 9780618565832

Category: Foreign Language Study / Ancient Languages/Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics/

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers

Release Date: 06/30/2011

Synopsis: 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 worlds 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.

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Spoken Here : Travels among Threatened Languages

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.75 inches

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 8.25 inches

Weight: 11.39 oz

Pages: 336