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How many languages are there? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? In this Very Short Introduction, eminent linguist Stephen Anderson addresses such questions as he illuminates the science behind languages. Considering a wide range of different languages and linguistic examples, Anderson provides the basic facts about the world's major families of spoken languages and their distribution around the globe. He explores the basis for linguistic classification and raises questions about how we identify a language. Considering signed languages as well as spoken, Anderson also examines the wider social issues of losing languages, and their impact on vanishing cultures and peoples.

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  • Title Languages: A Very Short Introduction
  • Author Stephen Anderson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition International Ed
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press
  • Publication date 2012-09-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780199590599 / 0199590591
  • Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.4 in (17.27 x 10.67 x 1.02 cm)
  • Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
  • Library of Congress subjects Linguistics, Language and languages
  • Dewey Decimal Code 410

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Stephen Anderson is the Dorothy R. Diebold Professor of Linguistics at Yale University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and past president of the Linguistic Society of America.
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