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A concise, accessible introduction to language endangerment and why it is one of the most urgent challenges of our times. 58% of the world's languagesor, approximately 4,000 languagesare endangered. When we break this figure down, we realize that roughly ten percent of languages have fewer than ten language keepers. And, if one language stops being used every three months, this means that in the next 100 years, if we do nothing, 400 more languages will become dormant. In Endangered Languages, Evangelia Adamou, a specialist of endangered languages and a learner of her own community language, Nashta, offers a sobering look at language endangerment and what is truly lost when a language disappears from usage. Combining recent advances from the Western scientific traditionfrom the fields of linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, language attrition, population genetics, and natural language processingand insights from Indigenous epistemology, theory, and ethics, Adamou examin

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      Publisher MIT Press Ltd
      Published 8 June 2024
      ISBN-13 9780262548700
      978-0262548700
      ISBN-10 0262548704
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      Language: reference and general

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      Book Synopsis
      A concise, accessible introduction to language endangerment and why it is one of the most urgent challenges of our times. 58% of the world's languagesor, approximately 4,000 languagesare endangered. When we break this figure down, we realize that roughly ten percent of languages have fewer than ten language keepers. And, if one language stops being used every three months, this means that in the next 100 years, if we do nothing, 400 more languages will become dormant. In Endangered Languages, Evangelia Adamou, a specialist of endangered languages and a learner of her own community language, Nashta, offers a sobering look at language endangerment and what is truly lost when a language disappears from usage. Combining recent advances from the Western scientific traditionfrom the fields of linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, language attrition, population genetics, and natural language processingand insights from Indigenous epistemology, theory, and ethics, Adamou examin

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