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Author Nettle, Daniel.

Title Vanishing voices : the extinction of the world's languages / Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, [2000]
©2000

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Description 1 online resource (x, 241 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and index.
Contents List of Illustrations; Preface; one: Where Have All the Languages Gone?; two: A World of Diversity; three: Lost Words/Lost Worlds; four: The Ecology of Language; five: The Biological Wave; six: The Economic Wave; seven: Why Something Should Be Done; eight: Sustainable Futures; References and Further Reading; Bibliography; Index.
Summary Suggests links between disappearing linguistic diversity and environmental issues. The authors argue that it is part of the larger picture of the world's collapsing ecosystem, and that the causes of language death, like those of ecological destruction, lie at the crossroad of ecology and politics.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Language obsolescence.
Language obsolescence.
Language maintenance.
Language maintenance.
Human ecology.
Human ecology.
Areal linguistics.
Areal linguistics.
Linguistic demography.
Linguistic demography.
Language and languages.
Language and languages.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Romaine, Suzanne, 1951-
Other Form: Print version: Nettle, Daniel. Vanishing voices. New York : Oxford University Press, ©2000 0195136241 0195152468 (DLC) 99016979 (OCoLC)41580409
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