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Endangered Languages, Multilingualism and Linguistics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Stephen A. Wurm
Stephen A. Wurm*
Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra

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As the last century of the present millennium is drawing to a close and the first century of the next one is looming on the horizon, linguistics and the fate of many of the 6000 languages on our planet is poised on a watershed, looking at a changing future.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 47 , Issue 185 , March 1999 , pp. 56 - 66
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 1999

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