TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harrison,K.David
TI  - The last speakers: the quest to save the world's most endangered languages 
SN  - 9781426204616
AV  - P40.5.E53 H37 2010
U1  - 408.9 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - National Geographic
KW  - Endangered languages
KW  - Language attrition
KW  - Language maintenance
KW  - Linguistic change
KW  - Linguistic minorities
KW  - Sociolinguistics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-293) and index; Becoming a linguist -- Siberia calling -- The power of words -- Where the hotspots are -- Finding hidden languages -- Six degrees of language -- How do stories survive? -- Breaking out in song -- When a world is running down -- Saving languages
N2  - Part travelogue and part scientist's notebook, The Last Speakers is the poignant chronicle of author K. David Harrison's expeditions around the world to meet with last speakers of vanishing languages. The speakers' eloquent reflections and candid photographs reveal little-known lifeways as well as revitalization efforts to teach disappearing languages to younger generations. Thought-provoking and engaging, this unique book illuminates the global language-extinction crisis through photos, graphics, interviews, traditional wisdom never before translated into English, and first-person essays that thrillingly convey the adventure of science and exploration. - Publisher
ER  -