Spoken Here

Spoken Here

2003 • 340 pages

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Explores the linguistic characteristics and oddities of some of the world's threatened languages, including Max, Mohawk, Yiddish, and Boro, and the diverse forces that threaten to destroy them and the cultures that spawned them.

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This was a very interesting book about language and culture. I especially liked the chapters about the Isle of Man and the Yuchi Indians.

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