Language In Danger: How Langua

Author: Andrew Dalby

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ISBN : 9780713994438
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It is expected that a language will become extinct every two weeks of the the 21st century. Will languages continue to die out? If so, must culture continue to become more impoverished? This book explores the "life cycle" of languages: their birth, interaction and - especially - their death.

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Andrew Dalby is Honorary Librarian at the Institute of Linguists and author of Dictionary of Languages(Bloomsbury 1998). He also writes on food. He lives in France.

Prologue; language and our species; language and change; language and community; language and nation; how to become a global language; when we lose a language; the loss of diversity.