Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages

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Penguin Random House, 2004 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 322 pages
Half the world's languages are threatened with extinction. This work looks at questions such as: What ways of looking at the world will die along with them, what cultural riches, what experiences, histories and memories? And how does it feel to be one of the last remaining speakers of a languages that is on its way to extinction?

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About the author (2004)

Mark Abley, a winner of Canada's National Newspaper Award, has written for the TLS, the Toronto Globe and Mail and the Montreal Gazette, and other publications. He speaks English, French, and a little Welsh.

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