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World Languages: Home

Information about individual world languages

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On the Shelf at CCBC Libraries

How Language Began by Daniel L. Everett
Call Number: P116 .E73 2017
ISBN: 9780871407955
The Last Speakers by K. David Harrison
Call Number: P40.5.E53 H37 2010
ISBN: 9781426204616
Through the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher
Call Number: P140 .D475 2010
ISBN: 9780805081954
A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how--and whether--culture shapes language and language, culture

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Ted Talks: Daniel Bögre Udell—How to Save A Language from Extinction

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Language Diversity in the Pacific by Denis Cunningham (Editor); David E. Ingram (Editor); Kenneth Sumbuk (Editor)
ISBN: 9781853598678
The Southwest Pacific from Southern China through Indonesia, Australia and the Pacific Islands constitutes the richest linguistic region of the world. ance.

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Languages in a Globalising World by Jacques Maurais (Editor); Michael A. Morris (Editor)
ISBN: 9780521533546
Arabic Language and Linguistics by Reem Bassiouney; E. Graham Katz (Editor)
ISBN: 9781589018853
The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries by Roland Greene (Editor); Stephen Cushman (Editor)
ISBN: 9780691170510