Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages Daniel Nettle, Suzanne Romaine
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Language change and linguistic imperialism in the Pacific region. €The ongoing collapse of the world's biodiversity is more than just an apt metaphor for the crisis of language extinction. Nettle, Daniel & Romaine, Suzanne (2000). The ongoing collapse of the world's biodiversity is more than just an apt metaphor for the crisis of language extinction. What linguists are Tuvan was apparently saved from extinction and is no longer threatened. One of the notable efforts in bringing the world's attention to dying languages is National Geographic's Vanishing Voices Project. Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages. Vanishing Voices: The extinction of the world's languages. As islands lose revenue they also lose inhabitants, culture and languages, forever. American Speech 79(3): 281-305. Dustcover pull-quotes was from Suzanne Romaine, herself a co-author of a book I have on my shelf from about seven years prior (written with Daniel Nettle) entitled Vanishing Voices: the extinction of the world's languages. 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). One language dies every 14 days. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Creating an explicit link between ecological and linguistic vitality, Nettle (Ph.D., anthropology, University Coll., London) and Romaine (English language, Oxford Univ. What is lost when a language goes silent? Medin, Douglas L., and Scott Atran 1999. By the next century nearly half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear, as communities abandon native tongues in favor of English, Mandarin, or Spanish. The Extinction of the World's Languages. Nettle, Daniel, and Suzanne Romaine 2000.