Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages

ISBN-13: 9780700711970 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 669 str.

Christopher Moseley

Opis

The concern for the fast-disappearing language stocks of the world has arisen as a result of the impact of globalization. This book attempts to catalogue and describe those languages, making up the vast majority of the world's six thousand or more distinct tongues, which are in danger of disappearing.

Spis treści

General Introduction.  List of Maps.  North America.  Latin America 1: Meso-America.  Latin America 2: South America.  Europe and North Asia.  South Asia and the Middle East.  East and Southeast Asia.  Australasia and the Pacific.  Africa.  Index of Language Names

O autorze

Christopher Moseley has recently retired from two decades spent covering Baltic affairs for BBC Monitoring, part of the BBC World Service. He now works as a freelance translator and editor, with a particular lifelong interest in the languages and literatures of the Baltic and Nordic areas. He is the editor of the Journal of the Foundation for Endangered Languages. His other books include Atlas of the World's Languages (Routledge, 2007), Colloquial Latvian (Routledge, 1996) and Colloquial Estonian (Routledge, 1994).