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Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages Paperback - 2005
by Mark Abley
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.
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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.
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AN OLD MAN watches a milky ocean roll in to the shore.
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- Title Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages
- Author Mark Abley
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 322
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Paperbacks, Boston and New York
- Date 2005-04-04
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780618565832 / 0618565833
- Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 8.28 x 5.61 x 0.81 in (21.03 x 14.25 x 2.06 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002192181
- Dewey Decimal Code 417.7
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