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Canto

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Canto

By David Crystal

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The rapid endangerment and death of many minority languages across the world is a matter of widespread concern, not only among linguists and anthropologists but among all concerned with issues of cultural identity in an increasingly globalized culture. By some counts, only 600 of the 6,000 or so languages in the world are 'safe' from the threat of extinction. A leading commentator and popular writer on language issues, David Crystal asks the fundamental question, 'why is language death so import...Show more

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9781107431812

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Cambridge University Press

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2014

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Canto

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