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Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result. Explores the unique ...
Apr 17, 2009 · “Its straightforward and compelling style will make it appealing to a general audience as well as to professional linguists and ...
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Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result.
Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

Book by Nicholas Evans
The next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book... Google Books
Originally published: April 29, 2009
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$34.95. Reviewed by William F. Hanks, University of Texas at Austin. This very well-written book examines the problems of language endangerment ...
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Jun 22, 2010 · This very well-written book examines the problems of language endangerment and death, and their far-reaching consequences for linguistics, ...
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The book shows that languages capture valuable knowledge about a community's specialised age-old knowledge - be it in botany, geology or other fields. It makes ...
Endangered language speakers are often regarded as primitive a nd ignorant by speakers of dominant languages. Much of this negati ve portrayal is misguidedly ...
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Nicholas Evans, Dying words: Endangered languages and what they have to tell us. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Pp. xxii, 287. Pb. $34.95.