Spoken here : travels among threatened languages
The author's journeys among the speakers of languages at the brink takes him to aboriginal Australia, and to American Indian reservations, as well as to places where the languages are fighting back - Wales, the Faeroe islands, the Isle of Man - as well as charting the triumphant return of Hebrew. This title explores his journeys.
1 online resource (336 pages)
9781446410455, 1446410455
1004570450
Patrick's language
Dreamers: languages in Northern Australia
Constructing the world
Unseen and unheard: Yuchi
Dont Vori, Bi Khepi
Leaving the grave: Manx
The verbs of Boro
The lion's tongue: Provençal
Melting at the edges
The words that come before all else: Mohawk
Humboldt's parrot
Ways of escape: Yiddish
Revival
The iron of language: Welsh
The face of all the earth
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