Spoken Here

"Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages", by Mark Abley

ISBN 061823649X This book operates from the standpoint of the SapirWhorfHypothesis, and much of what is described is difficult to explain on any other basis.

From the Amazon website:

• There are roughly 6,000 languages in use in the world today, most of them spoken by a tiny number of people-further proof of humanity's ability to generate intoxicating variety. Sadly, the processes of linguistic imperialism may still be as strong as they have ever been; expansion of the major world languages, particularly English, is, according to Abley, likely to bring about the elimination of most of these languages by century's end.

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