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When languages die : the extinction of the world's languages and the erosion of human knowledge /

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In When Languages Die, K. David Harrison illustrates the individual face of language loss, as well as its global scale. Languages are the accretion of thousands of years of a peopleʼs science and art - from observations of ecological patterns to creation myths. The author shows that the disappearanc...

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Main Author: Harrison, K. David (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.
Subjects:
Language obsolescence.
Native peoples > Languages.
Langage et langues > Disparition.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Ancient Languages.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative.
Language obsolescence
Sprachtod
Uitstervende talen.
Kennisoverdracht.
sears.
Språkdöd.
Döda språk.
Electronic books.
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Call Number: P40.5.L33 H37 2007eb
 
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