| Description |
x, 292 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1 A World of Many (Fewer) Voices -- 2 An Extinction of (Ideas about) Species -- Case Study: Vanishing Herds and Reindeer Words -- 3 Many Moons Ago: Traditional Calendars and Time-Reckoning -- Case Study: Nomads of Western Mongolia -- 4 An Atlas in the Mind -- Case Study: Wheel of Fortune and a Blessing -- 5 Silent Storytellers, Lost Legends -- Case Study: New Rice versus Old Knowledge -- 6 Endangered Number Systems: Counting to Twenty on Your Toes -- Case Study: The Leaf-Cup People, India's Modern Primitives -- 7 Worlds within Words. |
| Note |
Originally published in hardcover: 2007. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Language obsolescence.
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| ISBN |
9780195372069 paperback |
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0195372069 paperback |
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