TY - BOOK ID - 29372331 TI - Vanishing voices : the extinction of the world's languages AU - Nettle, Daniel AU - Romaine, Suzanne PY - 2023 SN - 0195152468 9780195152463 128047355X 9786610473557 0198031181 1602569142 9780198031185 1423761189 9781423761181 9781602569140 9780195136241 0195136241 9781280473555 6610473552 0190285788 0197722768 9780190285784 PB - New York ; Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Linguistic demography. KW - Language maintenance. KW - Language maintenance KW - Language loyalty KW - Maintenance of language KW - Language death KW - Obsolescence of languages KW - Obsolescence KW - Language obsolescence. KW - Language and languages KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Historical linguistics KW - Endangered languages KW - Extinct languages KW - Maintenance KW - Areal linguistics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:29372331 AB - Approximately half of all known languages have disappeared in the last 500 years. This text for graduate and professional linguists argues that the loss of linguistic diversity is just as threatening as the loss of global biodiversity. ER -