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When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge
K David Harrison
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| #235325 in Books | 2008-07-21 | 2008-07-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.10 x.80 x9.10l,.94 | File type: PDF | 304 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| False Welsh example|By Mochyn|This book has a lot going for it but emphasizes the few examples from the author's field work and not more in depth coverage of the topic as a whole. He also uses an example on page 190 in a description of Welsh numbers, he gets it completely wrong. "....Welsh children were found to grasp how numbers are built of bases more quickly than do the|||"At our current rate of language loss, by the end of this century the vast majority of the world's languages will be either extinct or will be spoken by only a few old people. While much effort and money are now being spent to stem the loss of plant and anima
It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller.
This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the essential question, what is lost when a language dies? What forms o...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge | K David Harrison. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
