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Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages

Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages

Nettle, Daniel
Romaine, Suzanne

Paperback

LinguisticsAnthropologyEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 0195152468
ISBN13: 9780195152463
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: May 16 2002
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.22
Language: English
Few people know that nearly one hundred native languages once spoken in what is now California are near extinction, or that most of Australia's 250 aboriginal languages have vanished. In fact, at least half of the world's languages may die out in the next century.
Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine assert that this trend is far more than simply disturbing. Making explicit the link between language survival and environmental issues, they argue that the extinction of languages is part of the larger picture of near-total collapse of the worldwide ecosystem. Indeed, the authors contend that the struggle to preserve precious environmental resources-such as the rainforest-cannot be separated from the struggle to maintain diverse cultures, and that the causes of language death, like that of ecological destruction, lie at the intersection of ecology and politics.

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