{"id":3701,"date":"2008-06-26T16:54:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T16:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/06\/1000-languages\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:49:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:49:19","slug":"1000-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/06\/1000-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"1000 Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just received copies from the publishers of a new book that may be of interest to readers of this blog. It is called 1000 Languages: The Worldwide History of Living and Lost Tongues<\/i> and is edited by yours truly. The book was published by Thames and Hudson<\/a> in the UK and associated countries, and by University of California Press in the US. It is available on UK Amazon<\/a>, or readers in the UK can get it for an even cheaper price via the Tesco on-line store.
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\nThe book is issued in hard cover and runs to over 300 pages and includes over 400 colour illustrations, a series of maps, a glossary of linguistic terms, and a list of references. It is organised topically by geographical regions and each chapter explores the sources, interrelationships and characteristics of that region’s languages, including the major and minor ones of the area. It includes chapters on the topical issues of endangered and extinct languages. Each main entry details numbers of speakers, geographical spread, growth, development and key features of the language. The following is a list of the chapters and authors:<\/p>\n


\nIntroduction<\/i> — Peter K. Austin<\/a>
\nWorld Languages<\/i> — Nicholas Ostler<\/a>
\nEurope<\/i> — Glanville Price<\/a>
\nWest and North Africa<\/i> — Phil Jaggar<\/a> and Friederike Luepke<\/a>
\nCentral, East and Southern Africa<\/i> — Nancy Kula<\/a> and Lutz Marten<\/a>
\nSouth Asia<\/i> — Anju Saxena<\/a>
\nCentral, Western and Northern Asia<\/i> — Kagan Arik<\/a>
\nEast and South East Asia<\/i> — David Bradley<\/a>
\nPacific and Australia<\/i> — Nick Thieberger<\/a> and Rachel Nordlinger<\/a>
\nNorth, Central and South America<\/i> — Nicholas Ostler<\/a> and Jose Antonio Flores Farfan<\/a> [.pdf]
\nEndangered Languages<\/i> — Lenore Grenoble<\/a>
\nExtinct Languages<\/i> — Nicholas Ostler<\/a>
\nAccording to Andrew Robinson’s review on page 55 of the 18th June 2008 issue of New Scientist<\/i>, “for anyone fascinated by the diversity of the world’s rapidly vanishing languages, here is an account to relish”. Robinson’s review says the book is “an authoritative and copiously illustrated global survey” and concludes that “1000 Languages<\/i> is an accessible and fascinating reference source, ideal for polyglot dipping”
\nI guess I’m biased but I think it would make an ideal book for friends, relatives and students interested in an accurate and accessible account of the diversity of the world’s languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just received copies from the publishers of a new book that may be of interest to readers of this blog. It is called 1000 Languages: The Worldwide History of Living and Lost Tongues and is edited by yours truly. The book was published by Thames and Hudson in the UK and associated countries, and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4524,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions\/4524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}