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Mark Abley, author of 'Spoken Here', presents an exploration of the way that the English language as it is spoken around the world is likely to transform and be transformed during the 21st century.

Features a collection of poems on intimacy, parenthood, and death, mountain-climbing, hiking, and birding.

In Spoken Here, Mark Abley takes us on a world tour from the Arctic Circle to Oklahoma to Australia in a fervent quest to document some of the world's most endangered languages. His mission is urgent: Of the six thousand languages spoken in the world today, only six hundred may survive into the next century. Abley visits the exotic and frequently remote locales that are home to fading languages and constructs engaging and entertaining portraits of some of the last living speakers of these tongues. Throughout this exhilarating travelogue, he points out that the same forces that put biological...

Half the world's languages are threatened with extinction, as English and other top 20 languages drive all before them. This work offers the author's journeys among the speakers of languages at the brink that take him to aboriginal Australia and to American Indian reservations, as well as to places where the languages are fighting back.