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Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages Daniel Nettle, Suzanne Romaine
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We have over the past 15 years seen a dramatic shift in all of these areas. Creating an explicit link between ecological and linguistic vitality, Nettle (Ph.D., anthropology, University Coll., London) and Romaine (English language, Oxford Univ. Deaf schools are in danger of closing, . Strange planet… though the risk of a 6th species extinction wave is quite real (see my previous post) and that of a future collision with a large asteroid not entirely negligible. Nettle and Romaine in their book, Vanishing Voices[iv] talk about the main forces that cause languages to die: an enduring social network ceases to be, loss by population, a shift is forced. [iv] Nettle, Daniel, and Suzanne Romaine. At the same time, native languages throughout the world are vanishing, fast (see the recent feature “Vanishing Voices” in National Geographic magazine and NG's Enduring Voices project). GO Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages Author: Daniel Nettle, Suzanne Romaine Type: eBook. Language: English Released: 2000. But that does not rate as headline news. Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages. [iii] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4dzzv81X9.