When languages die : the extinction of the world's languages and the erosion of human knowledge / K. David Harrison.

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 disappearanc...

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Main Author: Harrison, K. David (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.
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