Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages by Daniel Nettle, Suzanne Romaine

Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages



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(Crystal, 2000) This paper examines the most important reasons that language extinction is a tragedy by first refuting the idea of a one world language then, exploring several reasons that we should care about language extinction, explaining why the most important reason is the ethical one, and finally, the possibility of preserving them. Creating an explicit link between ecological and linguistic vitality, Nettle (Ph.D., anthropology, University Coll., London) and Romaine (English language, Oxford Univ. Nettle, Daniel and Suzanne Romaine. In Peter Austin, ed., Language Documentation and Description. Oxford University Press: London, UK. Vanishing Voices: the extinction of the world's languages. Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages, is without question, the book that inspired me the most to make this film. One of the notable efforts in bringing the world's attention to dying languages is National Geographic's Vanishing Voices Project. At the same time, native languages throughout the world are vanishing, fast (see the recent feature “Vanishing Voices” in National Geographic magazine and NG's Enduring Voices project). I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity to speak to Dr. GO Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages Author: Daniel Nettle, Suzanne Romaine Type: eBook. Strange planet… though the risk of a 6th species extinction wave is quite real (see my previous post) and that of a future collision with a large asteroid not entirely negligible. But that does not rate as headline news. Language: English Released: 2000. Language diversity is connected explicitly with the health of the environment, assert anthropologist Daniel Nettle and professor of English Suzanne Romain, in Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages, 2000. What linguists are Tuvan was apparently saved from extinction and is no longer threatened. Abley's Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages, which is mostly anecdotal travel journalism, and David Nettle's scholarly Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages (which I read only in part).