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Spoken Here Travels Among Threatened Languages
Abley, Mark Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Date Written: 06/08/2003 Year Published: 2003 Pages: 336pp ISBN: 978-0618236497 Resource Type: Book
Mark Abley takes us on a world tour from the Arctic Circle to Oklahoma to Australia in a fervent quest to document some of the world's most endangered languages.
Abstract: In Spoken Here, Mark Abley takes us on a world tour from the Arctic Circle to Oklahoma to Australia in a fervent quest to document some of the world's most endangered languages. His mission is urgent: Of the six thousand languages spoken in the world today, only six hundred may survive into the next century. Abley visits the exotic and frequently remote locales that are home to fading languages and constructs engaging and entertaining portraits of some of the last living speakers of these tongues. Throughout this exhilarating travelogue, he points out that the same forces that put biological species at risk -- development, globalization, loss of habitat -- are also threatening human languages, and with them, something very basic about their speakers' cultures.
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Table of Contents
Patricks Language 1 Dreamers Languages in Northern Australia 13 Constructing the World 43 Unseen and Unheard Yuchi 53 Dont Vori Bi Khepi 83 Leaving the Grave Manx 95 The Verbs of Boro 121 The Lions Tongue Provencal 128 Melting at the Edges 156 Humboldts Parrot 190 Ways of Escape Yiddish 201 Revival 229 The Iron of Language Welsh 240 The Face of All the Earth 272 Sources 283 Acknowledgments 299 Index 303
The Words That Come Before All Else Mohawk 163
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