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This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the languages of the Pacific rim, a vast region containing the greatest typological and genetic diversity in the world. It includes the littoral regions of North and South America, Australasia, east and south-east Asia, and Japan, as well as the Pacific itself. As its languages decline and disappear, sometimes without trace, this rich linguistic heritage is rapidly eroding. In The Vanishing Languages of the Pacific Rim distinguished scholars report on the current state of the region's languages and provides a critical survey of the current state of the region's languages. They show what is currently known and recorded and what remains to be examined and documented. They consider which languages are the most vulnerable to extinction and what steps that can be taken to save them. Their analyses range from the regional to the local and focus on languages in a wide variety of social and ecological settings. Together they make a compelling case for research throughout the region, and show how and where this needs to be done.

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Book category Książki po angielsku Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Vanishing Languages of the Pacific Rim
• Author: Osahito Miyaoka, Osamu Sakiyama, Michael E. Krauss
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 550
• EAN: 9780199266623
• ISBN: 019926662X
• ID: 04530980
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 1217 g
• Dimensions: 253 × 177 × 33 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. April 2007

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