Spoken Here (Mark Abley)

About the product 2005. New Ed. Paperback. Half the world's languages are threatened with extinction, as English and other top 20 languages drive all before them. This work offers the author's journeys among the speakers of languages at the brink that take him to aboriginal Australia and to American Indian reservations, as well as to places where the languages are fighting back. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: CFF; WTL; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 286. . . . . .