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Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages by Daniel Nettle, Suzanne Romaine

Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages Daniel Nettle, Suzanne Romaine ebook
Page: 241
ISBN: 0195136241, 9781423761181
Format: pdf
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The ongoing collapse of the world's biodiversity is more than just an apt metaphor for the crisis of language extinction. Endangered languages are being preserved using cheap mobile phones. One language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear, as communities abandon native tongues in favor of English, Mandarin, or Spanish. Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages. Cyberlinguistics: Recording the world's vanishing voices Enlarge. Vanishing Voices: The extinction of the world's languages. What is lost when a language goes silent? Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Medin, Douglas L., and Scott Atran 1999. Dustcover pull-quotes was from Suzanne Romaine, herself a co-author of a book I have on my shelf from about seven years prior (written with Daniel Nettle) entitled Vanishing Voices: the extinction of the world's languages. Nettle, Daniel, and Suzanne Romaine 2000. As islands lose revenue they also lose inhabitants, culture and languages, forever. 'Is There Linguistic Life after High School? American Speech 79(3): 281-305.