Spoken Here Travels Among Threatened Languages

Spoken Here Travels Among Threatened Languages. Spoken Here Travels Among Threatened Languages Hardcover – August 1 2003 by Mark Abley (Author) 34 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover $1867 31 Used from $160 5 New from $1867 3 Collectible from $1000 Paperback $1683 24 Used from $279 15 New from $1628 Mass Market Paperback $3315 1 Used from $3315 1 New from $3315.

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Spoken Here Travels Among Threatened Languages by Mark Abley For over a decade journalist Mark Abley has been worrying about the extinction of languages “Each time we lose a language/the ghosts who made use of it/cast a new bell” he wrote in his poem Glasburyon.

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Still others are helpless in this regard and are overrun by the majority language or the universal language English the “Walmart” of communication While Abley discusses certain linguistic aspects of the selected languages in some detail Spoken Here is primarily a human interest story and quite removed from dry technical linguistics.

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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.