When languages die: the extinction of the world's languages and the erosion of human knowledge
In When Languages Die, K. David Harrison illustrates the individual face of language loss, as well as its global scale. Languages are the accretion of thousands of years of a peoples science and art - from observations of ecological patterns to creation myths. The author shows that the disappearance...
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| Zusammenfassung: | In When Languages Die, K. David Harrison illustrates the individual face of language loss, as well as its global scale. Languages are the accretion of thousands of years of a peoples science and art - from observations of ecological patterns to creation myths. The author shows that the disappearance of a language is a loss not only for the community of speakers itself but also for our common human knowledge of mathematics, biology, geography, philosophy, agriculture, and linguistics. In this century, we face a massive erosion of the human knowledge base. The global abandonment of indigenous languages will bring a massive loss of accumulated knowledge and culture - this book argues for the irreplaceable nature of these unique knowledge systems and the urgency of documenting them before they are lost forever. Book jacket Includes information on Australia, calendars, creation myths, directions, epics, fish, folksonomy, genetics, grammar, Himalayan mountains, horse, indigenous people, knowledge, literacy, maps, metaphor, months, naming, nomads, oral traditions, Os (middle Chulym), Papua New Guinea, place names, reindeer, rivers, shamans, sign languages, singing, song, species, taxonomy, units of time, time reckoning, Tofa (Tofalar, Karagas), Tuvan, writing systems, Yukaghir, etc |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | X, 292 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 0195181921 9780195181920 |
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| adam_text | .Language extinction is a crisis of unprecedented
proportions. But what exactly is lost when speakers
of thousands of indigenous languages switch to
speaking English, Hindi, Russian, or other global
tongues? Building on the author s experiences as a
field linguist, and drawing examples from a wide
array of threatened or tecently vanished languages,
this book highlights the complex systems of knowl¬
edge embedded in indigenous languages.
In When Languages Die, K. David Harrison
illustrates the individual face of language loss, as
well as its global scale. Languages are the accretion
of thousands of years of a people s science and art
from observations of ecological patterns to creation
myths. The author shows that the disappearance of
a language is a loss not only for the community of
speakers itself but also for our common human
knowledge of mathematics, biology, geography,
philosophy, agriculture, and linguistics. In this cen¬
tury, we face a massive erosion of the human
knowledge base. As we explore technologies for sur¬
vival and the languages that communicate them, we
are introduced to people such as Aunt
of the last speakers of the language of the reindeer-
herding To fa people of Siberia; Vasya Gabov, at
the youngest speaker of
sured into speaking only Russian as a child, invent¬
ed in secret a writing system for his mother tongue;
and Shoydak-ool, a traditional
who practices a vanishing art. The global abandon¬
ment of indigenous languages will bring a massive
loss of accumulated knowledge and culture
book argues for the irreplaceable nature of these
unique knowledge systems and the urgency of doc¬
umenting them before they are lost forever.
Contents
1
3
2
23
CASE STUDY: Vanishing Herds and Reindeer Words
57
3
and Time-Reckoning
61
CASE STUDY: Nomads of Western Mongolia
95
4
101
CASE STUDY: Wheel of Fortune and a Blessing
137
5
141
CASE STUDY: New Rice versus Old Knowledge
161
6
167
CASE STUDY:
The Leaf-Cup People,
India
s Modern Primitives
201
7
Worlds within Words
205
Notes
237
Bibliography
263
Index
285
|
| adam_txt |
.Language extinction is a crisis of unprecedented
proportions. But what exactly is lost when speakers
of thousands of indigenous languages switch to
speaking English, Hindi, Russian, or other global
tongues? Building on the author's experiences as a
field linguist, and drawing examples from a wide
array of threatened or tecently vanished languages,
this book highlights the complex systems of knowl¬
edge embedded in indigenous languages.
In When Languages Die, K. David Harrison
illustrates the individual face of language loss, as
well as its global scale. Languages are the accretion
of thousands of years of a people's science and art
from observations of ecological patterns to creation
myths. The author shows that the disappearance of
a language is a loss not only for the community of
speakers itself but also for our common human
knowledge of mathematics, biology, geography,
philosophy, agriculture, and linguistics. In this cen¬
tury, we face a massive erosion of the human
knowledge base. As we explore technologies for sur¬
vival and the languages that communicate them, we
are introduced to people such as Aunt
of the last speakers of the language of the reindeer-
herding To fa people of Siberia; Vasya Gabov, at
the youngest speaker of
sured into speaking only Russian as a child, invent¬
ed in secret a writing system for his mother tongue;
and Shoydak-ool, a traditional
who practices a vanishing art. The global abandon¬
ment of indigenous languages will bring a massive
loss of accumulated knowledge and culture
book argues for the irreplaceable nature of these
unique knowledge systems and the urgency of doc¬
umenting them before they are lost forever.
Contents
1
3
2
23
CASE STUDY: Vanishing Herds and Reindeer Words
57
3
and Time-Reckoning
61
CASE STUDY: Nomads of Western Mongolia
95
4
101
CASE STUDY: Wheel of Fortune and a Blessing
137
5
141
CASE STUDY: New Rice versus Old Knowledge
161
6
167
CASE STUDY:
The Leaf-Cup People,
India
's Modern 'Primitives'
201
7
Worlds within Words
205
Notes
237
Bibliography
263
Index
285 |
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