Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages

In Spoken Here, Mark Abley takes us on a world tour from the Arctic Circle to Oklahoma to Australia in a fervent quest to document some of the world's most endangered languages. His mission is urgent: Of the six thousand languages spoken in the world today, only six hundred may survive into the next century. Abley visits the exotic and frequently remote locales that are home to fading languages and constructs engaging and entertaining portraits of some of the last living speakers of these tongues. Throughout this exhilarating travelogue, he points out that the same forces that put biological species at risk -- development, globalization, loss of habitat -- are also threatening human languages, and with them, something very basic about their speakers' cultures.

Author: Mark Abley
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: 04/04/2005
Pages: 322
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.61w x 0.81d
ISBN13: 9780618565832
ISBN10: 0618565833
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics | Sociolinguistics
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies