Spoken Here Travels among Threatened Languages

Name: Spoken Here Travels among Threatened Languages
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ISBN: 9780618565832

ISBN-10: 0618565833

ISBN-13: 9780618565832

Edition: 2003

Authors: Mark Abley

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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…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/4/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English




Patrick's Language



Dreamers: Languages in Northern Australia



Constructing the World



Unseen and Unheard: Yuchi



Dont Vori, Bi Khepi



Leaving the Grave: Manx



The Verbs of Boro



The Lion's Tongue: Provencal



Melting at the Edges



The Words That Come Before All Else: Mohawk



Humboldt's Parrot



Ways of Escape: Yiddish



Revival



The Iron of Language: Welsh



The Face of All the Earth


Sources


Acknowledgments


Index