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Dying Words
Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us
Nicholas Evans
© 2010 Nicholas Evans. ISBN: 978-0-631-23305-3
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Multilingualism in the English-speaking World
Nicholas Evans
Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What
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Amalia E. Gnanadesikan
The Writing Revolution: Cuneiform to the Internet
Geoffrey Hughes
A History of English Words
Walter Nash
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Language Crimes
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An Introduction to American English
Ronald Wardhaugh
Investigating Language
Ronald Wardhaugh
Proper English: Myths and Misunderstandings
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Dying Words
Endangered Languages and What They
Have to Tell Us
Nicholas Evans
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Evans, Nicholas, 1956 –
Dying words : endangered languages and what they have to tell us / Nicholas Evans.
p. cm. – (Language library)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 978-0-631-23305-3 (alk. paper) – ISBN 978-0-631-23306-0 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Endangered languages.
I. Title.
II. Series.
P40.5.E53E93 2009
408.9–dc22
2008044645
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2010
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