[PDF.25vo] Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages

Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages

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 | #1049628 in Books |  2002-05-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.10 x.80 x9.10l,.82 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A good book. From page 16|By timw|A good book. From page 16: "In the native American language, Micmac, trees are named for the sound the wind makes when it blows through them during the Autumn, about an hour after sunset when the wind always comes from a certain direction. Moreover, these names are not fixed but change as the sound changes. If an elder remembers, for example, t|From Library Journal|Creating an explicit link between ecological and linguistic vitality, Nettle (Ph.D., anthropology, University Coll., London) and Romaine (English language, Oxford Univ.) persuasively present the scientific value of saving endangered language

Few people know that nearly one hundred native languages once spoken in what is now California are near extinction, or that most of Australia's 250 aboriginal languages have vanished. In fact, at least half of the world's languages may die out in the next century.
Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine assert that this trend is far more than simply disturbing. Making explicit the link between language survival and environmental issues, they argue that the extinction o...

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