Language city : the fight to preserve endangered mother tongues in New York / Ross Perlin.

"From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible history of the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planet. Half of...

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Main Author: Perlin, Ross (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: The limits of my language
  • Thousands of natural experiments
  • Past
  • Present
  • future
  • Acknowledgments
  • A note on sources
  • Notes.