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Author Nettle, Daniel.

Title Vanishing voices : the extinction of the world's languages / Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine
Published New York : Oxford University Press, [2000]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 241 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series OUP E-Books
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
Summary Suggests links between disappearing linguistic diversity and environmental issues. The authors argue that it is part of the larger picture of the world's collapsing ecosystem, and that the causes of language death, like those of ecological destruction, lie at the crossroad of ecology and politics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and index
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Subject Language obsolescence.
Language maintenance.
Human ecology.
Areal linguistics.
Linguistic demography.
Language and languages.
Language
human ecology.
languages (study discipline)
language (general communication)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Ancient Languages.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
Areal linguistics
Human ecology
Language and languages
Language maintenance
Language obsolescence
Linguistic demography
Uitstervende talen.
Culturele minderheden.
Form Electronic book
Author Romaine, Suzanne, 1951-
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