When languages die : the extinction of the world's languages and the erosion of human knowledge / K. David Harrison.
"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 peopleʾs science and art - from observations of ecological patterns to creation myths. The author shows that the disapp...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Rārangi ihirangi:
- 1 A World of Many (Fewer) Voices
- 2 An Extinction of (Ideas about) Species
- Case Study: Vanishing Herds and Reindeer Words
- 3 Many Moons Ago: Traditional Calendars and Time-Reckoning
- Case Study: Nomads of Western Mongolia
- 4 An Atlas in the Mind
- Case Study: Wheel of Fortune and a Blessing
- 5 Silent Storytellers, Lost Legends
- Case Study: New Rice versus Old Knowledge
- 6 Endangered Number Systems: Counting to Twenty on Your Toes
- Case Study: The Leaf-Cup People, India's Modern Primitives
- 7 Worlds within Words.