[PDF.94xl] When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics)

When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics)

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 | #2428861 in Books |  K David Harrison |  2007-02-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.20 x1.10 x9.40l,1.25 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||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

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...

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