Language in DangerLanguage extinction has been a feature of the 20th century - it is expected that a language will become extinct every two weeks of the the 21st century. Will languages continue to die out? If so, must culture continue to become more impoverished? Everybody who takes an interest in our cultural future needs to ask these questions. This book should assist in this endeavour by exploring the life cycle of languages: their birth, their interaction and - especially - what happens when they die. |
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LANGUAGE AND CHANGE | 39 |
LANGUAGE AND COMMUNITY | 82 |
LANGUAGE AND NATION | 127 |
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African already Amharic ancient Aramaic Basque become bilingual borrowed Britain British called Celtic communities Cornish countries culture Dharuk dialects different language disappeared Dixon Dutch early English speakers Etruscan Europe European eventually example fact France French Frisian Gaulish German grammar Greek guage happened Hawaiian Hebrew Hindi Hopi human Indian English indigenous languages Irish Karuk Khoisan languages known Krauss language families language shift language spoken Latin lingua franca loanwords majority Malay means migration million minority languages Mithun modern mother tongue multilingual names national language neighbouring northern number of languages official language original Oscan political population Punic quoted R. M. W. Dixon reason recorded region Roman Empire Russian secret language Shelta South South African English southern Soviet Spanish speak speech spread survive traditional translation twentieth century United vocabulary Welsh western Whorf words writing written Yiddish