It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of Languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime.
David Harrison\'s book is the first to focus on the essential question, what is lost When a language dies? What forms of Knowledge are embedded in.
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This Extinction of languages, and the Knowledge therein, has no parallel in Human history.
The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller.
It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of Languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime