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Spoken Here

By Mark Abley

Spoken Here Social Sciences

Spoken Here

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Description
Half the world's languages are threatened with extinction over the next century as English and the rest of the world's top twenty languages drive all before them. What ways of looking at the world will die along with them what cultural riches what experiences histories and memories? And how does it feel to be one of the last remaining speakers of a language that is on its way to extinction? What chance is there of saving any of these languages? Is it feasible in the long term or even worthwhile?
Mark Abley's journeys among the speakers of languages at the brink takes him to aboriginal Australia (where he meets the last surviving fluent male speaker of Mati Ke who cannot speak to the only other fluent speaker as she is his sister and in their culture it is forbidden to speak to siblings once one has reached puberty) and to American Indian reservations as well as to places where the languages are fighting back - Wales the Faeroe islands the Isle of Man - whilst also charting the triumphant return of Hebrew.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
338
Release Date:
2005-01-06
Publication Date:
2005-01-06
Publisher:
Arrow
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
009946022X
ISBN13:
9780099460220
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
404 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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