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Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages
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Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages Paperback - 2002

by Nettle, Daniel

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Oxford University Press, 2002. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:9780195152463
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  • Title Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages
  • Author Nettle, Daniel
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Ed
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Don Mills, ON, Canada
  • Date 2002
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9644504
  • ISBN 9780195152463 / 0195152468
  • Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.12 x 0.7 in (23.42 x 15.54 x 1.78 cm)
  • Reading level 1350
  • Themes
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Library of Congress subjects Language obsolescence, Language maintenance
  • Dewey Decimal Code 417.7

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A few years ago, linguists raced to the Turkish farm village of Haci Osman to record Tevfic Esenc, a frail old man believed to be the last known speaker of the Ubykh language once spoken in he northwestern Caucasus.

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About the author

Daniel Nettle is the author The Fyem Language of Northern Nigeria and Linguistic Diversity (OUP). Suzanne Romaine is Merton Professor of English Language at the University of Oxford and is the author of Language in Society: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (OUP). Vanishing Voices was awarded the 2001 Book of the Year Award from the British Association of Applied Linguistics.

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