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The next century will see more than half of the world's 6,000 languages go extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Yet each language contains its own philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions. This compelling book asks what the cost is to our collective intellectual heritage with the death of these languages. It brings conceptual issues vividly to life by weaving in portraits of individual 'last speakers' and anecdotes about linguists and their discoveries.
In exploring what humanity stands to lose with the onset of massive language extinction, Dying Words considers a variety of connected issues: how can we can best respond to the challenge of recording and documenting these fragile oral traditions while they are still with us? Why does such linguistic diversity exist in the first place, and what can it tell us about the potential variation of languages? And what insights can these languages give us into history? Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, Dying Words draws on a wealth of examples from Evans' own field experience to give us a fascinating insight into the field of endangered languages.
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- Title Dying Words
- Author Nicholas Evans
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester
- Date 2009-05-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780631233060 / 0631233067
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.6 x 6.7 x 0.7 in (24.38 x 17.02 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Endangered languages
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008044645
- Dewey Decimal Code 408.9
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