Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages, Paperback/Mark Abley

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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 species at risk -- development, globalization, loss of habitat -- are also threatening human languages, and with them, something very basic about their speakers' cultures.

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Mark Abley

poet canadian, jurnalist, editor, scriitor · n. 1955

Mark Abley este un poet, jurnalist, editor și scriitor de non-ficțiune canadian. Poezia sa și unele dintre cărțile sale de non-ficțiune reflectă interesul său pentru limbile amenințate cu dispariția. În noiembrie 2022, Universitatea din Saskatchewan i-a conferit lui Abley titlul onorific de Doctor in Litere (D.Litt.) pentru cariera sa literară și pentru contribuțiile sale la literatura canadiană.