12.2532, Media: "Deaths of Languages"/Natural History

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-12-2532. Thu Oct 11 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 12.2532, Media: "Deaths of Languages"/Natural History

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Date:  Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:20:55 +0100
From:  Larry Trask <larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk>
Subject:  Re: 12.2440, Media: Magazine Articles

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Date:  Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:20:55 +0100
From:  Larry Trask <larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk>
Subject:  Re: 12.2440, Media: Magazine Articles

I can add one more valuable magazine article to those cited by Veronika
Koller:

Jared Diamond. 'Deaths of languages'. Natural History, April 2001, pp.
30-38.

This article deals with language death and minority languages, with
particular attention to Gothic and Frisian.


Larry Trask
COGS
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH
UK

larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk

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