Spoken here : travels among threatened languages af Mark Abley (Bog)

Forfatter: Mark Abley
Sprog: Engelsk
Antal sider: 322
Forlag: Arrow Books
Udgivelsesår: 2005
Mark Abley har på sin rejse verden rundt mødt folk, der taler sprog, der er på vej til at forsvinde, men også folk, der kæmper for at bevare deres sprog
Titel: Spoken here : travels among threatened languages

Sammendrag: Mark Abley's journeys among the speakers of languages at the brink take him to aboriginal Australia, to American Indian reservations and to elderly Canadian speakers of Yiddish, as well as to places where the languages are fighting back: Wales, the Faeroe Islands, the Isle of Man. He examines the forces - from pop culture to creoles to globalisation - that threaten to wipe out 90 per cent of languages by the end of this century. And he pays tribute to such unfamiliar 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).
Type: Paperback