The vanishing languages of the Pacific rim

Autoren

• Osahito Miyaoka
• Osamu Sakiyama
• Michael E. Krauss
• Inc ebrary

Parameter

• Belletristik
• Weltliteratur

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This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the languages of the Pacific rim, a vast region containing the greatest typological and genetic diversity in the world. It includes the littoral regions of North and South America, Australasia, east and south-east Asia, and Japan, as well as the Pacific itself. As its languages decline and disappear, sometimes without trace, this rich linguistic heritage is rapidly eroding.

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• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007