| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (65 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Summary |
'How many languages are there in the world? There could be as many as 10,000 languages or as few as 4,000 languages. Whatever the number, half of those languages are likely to disappear within the next hundred years. Filmed across the globe in countries as diverse as Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Denmark, Egypt, Greenland, Iran, Mozambique, Nepal, Spain and Vietnam, Voices of the World offers a profound vision of a world where languages and cultures are disappearing. Every time a language is lost, one vision of the world disappears. Languages encode and encapsulate the culture of a people and this includes their music, their poetry, their songs and their stories. Language defines who we are. When a language disappears humanity itself is diminished. (From Denmark, in English, Danish, Arabic, and Mlabri, English subtitles)' -- SBS website |
| Notes |
Off-air recording of SBS-TV broadcast April 4, 2008. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act |
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"Protector of voices of the world Vigdis Finnbogadottir" |
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DVD |
| Credits |
Directors: Janus Billeskov Jensen and Signe Byrge Sorensen |
| Performer |
Narrator: Simon Chilvers |
| Notes |
Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
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No rating given |
| Subject |
Language and languages
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| Author |
Jensen, Janus Billeskov
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Sorensen, Signe Byrge
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SBS-TV
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