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Vanishing voices : the extinction of the world's languages / Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nettle, Daniel, author.
- Romaine, Suzanne, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language obsolescence.
- Linguistic demography.
- Areal linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Approximately half of all known languages have disappeared in the last 500 years. This text for graduate and professional linguists argues that the loss of linguistic diversity is just as threatening as the loss of global biodiversity.
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; one: Where Have All the Languages Gone?; two: A World of Diversity; three: Lost Words/Lost Worlds; four: The Ecology of Language; five: The Biological Wave; six: The Economic Wave; seven: Why Something Should Be Done; eight: Sustainable Futures; References and Further Reading; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 9786610473557
- 9780197722763
- 0197722768
- 9780190285784
- 0190285788
- 9780195152463
- 0195152468
- 9781280473555
- 128047355X
- 9780198031185
- 0198031181
- 9781602569140
- 1602569142
- OCLC:
- 65192583
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