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Language Diversity in the Pacific - Endangerment and Survival

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Denis Cunningham is Assistant Principal in the Victorian School of Languages. He has published widely in journals, reports and conferences around the world, and was made a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators in 2001. David Ingram is Professor and Executive Dean in the School of Applied Language Studies in Melbourne University Private, Melbourne Australia. He has published extensively in applied linguistics. Kenneth Sumbuk is Professor and Executive Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Papua New Guinea. His research specialty is in Papuan languages, Pidgin and Creole linguistics and dying languages. Klappentext The Southwest Pacific constitutes the richest linguistic region of the world. That rich resource cannot be taken for granted. Some of its languages have already been lost; many more are under threat. The challenge is to describe the languages that exist today and to adopt policies that will support their maintenance.

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Authors Denis Cunningham, Dr Denis Cunningham
Assisted by Denis Cunningham (Editor), Dr Denis Cunningham (Editor), David E. Ingram (Editor), Prof David E. Ingram (Editor), Kenneth Sumbuk (Editor), Prof Kenneth Sumbuk (Editor)
Publisher Multilingual Matters
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 28.03.2006
 
EAN 9781853598678
ISBN 978-1-85359-867-8
No. of pages 264
Series Multilingual Matters
Multilingual Matters
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures

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