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Pages: 316
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-21 - Publisher: National Geographic Books

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Part travelogue and part scientist's notebook, The Last Speakers is the poignant chronicle of author K. David Harrison's expeditions around the world to meet wi
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Language: en
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Authors: K. David Harrison
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: National Geographic Books

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It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. Thi
The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages
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It is generally agreed that about 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This s
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Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist