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An edition of The last speakers (2010)

The last speakers

the quest to save the world's most endangered languages

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Part travelogue and part scientist's notebook, The Last Speakers is the poignant chronicle of author K. David Harrison's expeditions around the world to meet with last speakers of vanishing languages. The speakers' eloquent reflections and candid photographs reveal little-known lifeways as well as revitalization efforts to teach disappearing languages to younger generations. Thought-provoking and engaging, this unique book illuminates the global language-extinction crisis through photos, graphics, interviews, traditional wisdom never before translated into English, and first-person essays that thrillingly convey the adventure of science and exploration. - Publisher.

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National Geographic
Language
English

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Subjects
Linguistic minorities, Endangered languages, Linguistic change, Language attrition, Sociolinguistics, Language maintenance, Language and languages

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Last Speakers: The Quest to Save the World's Most Endangered Languages
2010, National Geographic Society
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The last speakers: the quest to save the world's most endangered languages
2010, National Geographic
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Washington, D.C

Table of Contents

Becoming a linguist
Siberia calling
The power of words
Where the hotspots are
Finding hidden languages
Six degrees of language
How do stories survive?
Breaking out in song
When a world is running down
Saving languages.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
408.9
Library of Congress
P40.5.E53 H37 2010, P40.5.E53H37 2010

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24468497M
Internet Archive
lastspeakersques0000harr
ISBN 10
1426204612
ISBN 13
9781426204616
LCCN
2010014720
OCLC/WorldCat
251204945

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