One Thousand Languages: Living, Endangered, and Lost

One Thousand Languages: Living, Endangered, and Lost | An enjoyable coffee- table book - Some books are to be dabbed in and out of

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	One Thousand Languages: Living, Endangered, and Lost University of California Press, 2008 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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There are more than six thousand languages used around the world today, although linguists now estimate that by the year 2050 as many as half of those will be extinct. This beautifully designed, engagingly written reference takes us on a panoramic tour of the globe to explore this unique and endangered human gift. Generously illustrated throughout with color photographs, informative sidebars, and clear maps and graphics, One Thousand Languages illuminates the sources, characteristics, and interrelationships of the world's spoken tongues. It looks in detail at the eleven global languages, then delves into the major languages of each world region in turn. Each entry gives a history of the growth and development of the language, details the number of speakers, and traces its geographical spread. The volume also provides information on many extinct languages. A detailed map section tracks the migrations of the major languages, and the book also tells how to count to ten in more than 250 ways.
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One Thousand Languages

I found this book really interesting. I thought it had a lot of information about various langauges. Also, before each langauge section such as european langauges, it gives you a brief over view of all language groups such as germanic, romance and slavic as well as what langauges will be discussed in the following chaper. A lot of the informaiton I found to be very intriguing and would recommend this book to anyone.

An enjoyable coffee- table book - Some books are to be dabbed in and out of

This is not a book for scholars, but rather for the general reader who would like to get a kind of map of the world's language. As a non- linguist I cannot vouch for the accuracy of information imparted. There is much of great interest here for someone who would like to dip in and dip out collecting odd facts and perceptions on Language and languages. We are told at the outset that ninety- six percent of the world's people speak four percent of its language. And that four percent speak ninety- six percent of its language. There is a special section devoted to the major languages, among which are Han Chinese with over a billion English with 760 million Hindi, Spanish, Portugese, Arabic. There is a great deal on small languages which I suspect very few people have heard of. Each language is described briefly, and without real depth. There is also a chapter on dead languages.
On the whole this is an entertaining and informative coffee- table book which I believe most people would enjoy looking at.

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