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050 00 $aP40.5.L33$bH37 2007
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100 1 $aHarrison, K. David.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99086403
245 10 $aWhen languages die :$bthe extinction of the world's languages and the erosion of human knowledge /$cK. David Harrison.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2007.
263 $a0701
300 $ax, 292 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tA world of many (fewer) voices -- $g2.$tAn extinction of (ideas about) species -- $tCase study : vanishing herds and reindeer words -- $g3.$tMany moons ago : traditional calendars and time-reckoning -- $tCase study : nomads of western Mongolia -- $g4.$tAn atlas in the mind -- $tCase study : wheel of fortune and a blessing -- $g5.$tSilent storytellers, lost legends -- $tCase study : new rice versus old knowledge -- $g6.$tEndangered number systems : counting to twenty on your toes -- $tCase study : the leaf-cup people, India's modern 'primitives' -- $g7.$tWorlds within words.
520 1 $a"In When Languages Die, K. David Harrison illustrates the individual face of language loss, as well as its global scale. Languages are the accretion of thousands of years of a people's science and art - from observations of ecological patterns to creation myths. The author shows that the disappearance of a language is a loss not only for the community of speakers itself but also for our common human knowledge of mathematics, biology, geography, philosophy, agriculture, and linguistics. In this century, we face a massive erosion of the human knowledge base. The global abandonment of indigenous languages will bring a massive loss of accumulated knowledge and culture - this book argues for the irreplaceable nature of these unique knowledge systems and the urgency of documenting them before they are lost forever."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aLanguage obsolescence.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88003305
852 00 $bglx$hP40.5.L33$iH37 2007