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"The rapid endangerment and death of many minority languages across the world is a matter of widespread concern, not only among linguists and anthropologists but among all concerned with issues of cultural identity in an increasingly globalized culture. A leading commentator and popular writer on language issues, David Crystal asks the fundamental question, 'Why is language death so important?', reviews the reasons for the current crisis and investigates...
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In When Languages Die, K. David Harrison illustrates the individual face of language loss, as well as its global scale. Languages are the accretion of thousands of years of a peopleʼs science and art - from observations of ecological patterns to creation myths. The author shows that the disappearance of a language is a loss not only for the community of speakers itself but also for our common human knowledge of mathematics, biology, geography, philosophy,...
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"The aim of this book is to inform both scholars and the public about the nature and extent of the problem of language decline and death in Africa. The situation of language endangerment in Africa is arguably the most pressing in the world due to the unique and very bleak set of circumstances there today. The book resourcefully traces the main causes and circumstances of language endangerment, the processes and extent of language shift and death,...
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