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In Spoken Here, Mark Abley takes us on a world tour from the Arctic Circle to Oklahoma to Australia in a fervent quest to document some of the world's most endangered languages. His mission is urgent: Of the six thousand languages spoken in the world today, only six hundred may... Read Full Overview

Half the world's languages are threatened with extinction over the next century as English and the rest of the world's top twenty languages drive all before them. What ways of looking at the world will die along with them what cultural riches what experiences histories and... Read Full Overview

In Spoken Here, Mark Abley takes us on a world tour, from the Arctic Circle to Oklahoma to Australia, in a fervent quest to document some of the world's most endangered languages.

Abley delves deep into why some languages are fading into oblivion, while... Read Full Overview