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• Title:Atlas of the world's languages in danger / editor-in-Chief, Christopher Moseley ; cartographer, Alexandre Nicolas.
  
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• Variant Title:Unesco map of the world's languages in danger : maps
  Unesco map of the world's languages in danger
  Atlas of the world's languages in danger of disappearing
  
• Related Title:Water in a changing world.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Moseley, Christopher.
  Nicolas, Alexandre.
  Unesco.
  
• Published/Created:Paris : Unesco, 2010.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY reference atlases (non circulating Floor 2)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: P40.5.L33 A841 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Language obsolescence.
  
• Medical Subjects: Language
  
• Edition:3rd ed. entirely revised, enlarged and updated.
  
• Description:62, 154 pages : color maps ; 31 cm. 1 map (86 x 119 cm. folded to 29 x 18 cm.)
  
• Series:Memory of peoples.
  
• Summary:"Languages are not only tools of communication, they also reflect a view of the world. Languages are vehicles of value systems and cultural expressions and are an essential component of the living heritage of humanity. Yet, many of them are in danger of disappearing. UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger tries to raise awareness on language endangerment. This third edition has been completely revies and expanded to include [a] new series of maps and new points of view."--Cover, p.4.
  
• Notes:Previously published in 1996 and 2001 under title, Atlas of the world's languages in danger of disappearing.
  Previous title: Water in a changing world.
  Includes folded map.
  "The project was ably managed at UNESCO by my colleagues in the Intangible Cultural Heritage Section"--P. 13.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9789231040955 (Unesco)
  9231040952 (Unesco)
  
• Contents:Introduction / Christopher Moseley
  Cartographic representation of the world's endangered languages / Christopher Moseley
  Sub-Saharan Africa / Matthias Brenzinger and Herman Batibo
  North Africa and the Middle East / Salem Mezhoud and Yamina El Kirat El Allame
  Europe and the Caucasus / Tapani Salminen
  Western and Central Asia / Hakim Elnazarov
  North-east Asia / Juha Janhunen
  India and the Himalayan chain / Stuart Blackburn and Jean Robert Opgenort
  South-East Asia, southern China and Talwan (China) / David Bradley
  Greater Pacific area / Darrell T. Tryon
  Australia / Michael Walsh
  South America / Willem Adelaar
  South America : Andean region / Marleen Haboud
  Mexico and Central America / Yolanda Lastra
  United States of America / Chris Rogers, Naomi Palosaari and Lyle Campbell
  Canada and Greenland / Mary Jane Norris.