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050 00 $aP40.5.L33$bA25 2003
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100 1 $aAbley, Mark.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85349906
245 10 $aSpoken here :$btravels among threatened languages /$cMark Abley.
260 $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin,$c2003.
300 $a322 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [283]-297) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tPatrick's Language -- $g2.$tDreamers: Languages in Northern Australia -- $g3.$tConstructing the World -- $g4.$tUnseen and Unheard: Yuchi -- $g5.$tDont Vori, Bi Khepi -- $g6.$tLeaving the Grave: Manx -- $g7.$tThe Verbs of Boro -- $g8.$tThe Lion's Tongue: Provencal -- $g9.$tMelting at the Edges -- $g10.$tThe Words That Come Before All Else: Mohawk -- $g11.$tHumboldt's Parrot -- $g12.$tWays of Escape: Yiddish -- $g13.$tRevival -- $g14.$tThe Iron of Language: Welsh -- $g15.$tThe Face of All the Earth.
520 1 $a"In Spoken Here, Mark Abley journeys around the world seeking out languages in peril - Manx, Mohawk, Boro, Yiddish, and many more. Along the way he reveals delicious linguistic oddities and shows us what is lost when one of the world's six thousand tongues dies - an irreplaceable worldview and a wealth of practical knowledge. He also examines the forces, from pop culture to creoles to global politics, that threaten to wipe out 90 percent of languages by this century's end." "Abley encounters one of the last two speakers of an Australian language whose tribal taboos forbid them to talk to each other. He spotlights those who believe that violence is the only way to save their tongue. He meets a Yiddish novelist who writes for an audience she knows doesn't exist. He pays tribute to such strange tongues as the Amazonian language last spoken by a parrot, the Caucasian language with no vowels, and the South Asian language whose innumerable verbs include gobray (to fall in a well unknowingly) and onsra (to love for the last time)." "Each of the languages Abley spotlights, from the familiar to the foreign, exemplifies the various threats that endanger languages worldwide. But many also prove their resilience, thanks to the efforts of their determined speakers and such unlikely tools as soap operas and pop music. From the crusaders to the uncaring, Abley draws surprising insight from this centuries-old debate."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aLanguage obsolescence.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88003305
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hm031/2002192181.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hm031/2002192181.html
852 00 $bglx$hP40.5.L33$iA25 2003