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The last speakers : the quest to save the world's most endangered languages / K. David Harrison. |
| Authors: | Harrison, K. David. |
| Call number: | 408.9 HAR |
| Publisher: | Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2010. |
| Publication date: | c2010. |
| Subject: |
Endangered languages.
Language attrition. Language maintenance. Linguistic change. Linguistic minorities. Sociolinguistics. |
| Title: | The last speakers : the quest to save the world's most endangered languages / K. David Harrison. |
| Physical description: | 302 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 24 cm. |
| Contents note: | Becoming a linguist -- Siberia calling -- The power of words -- Where the hotspots are -- Finding hidden languages -- Six degrees of language -- How do stories survive? -- Breaking out in song -- When a world is running down -- Saving languages. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781426204616 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1426204612 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| LCCN: | 2010014720 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1262013 |
| Bib No.: | 1262013 |
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