On the Death and Life of Languages

Twenty-five languages die each year; at this pace, half the world's five thousand languages will disappear within the next century. This book intends to make clear the magnitude of the cultural loss represented by the crisis of language death.

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• Authors: Jody Gladding, Claude Hagege, Claude/ Gladding Hagege, Claude Hagège, Claude Hagege (Hagege), HAGEGE CLAUDE
• Assisted by: Jody Gladding (Translation)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2011
• EAN: 9780300167870
• ISBN: 978-0-300-16787-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: An Editions Odile Jacob Book; Odile Jacob Books; Odile Jacob Series; Odile Jacob Books
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics