{"id":866,"date":"2010-09-14T15:35:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T15:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=866"},"modified":"2010-09-14T15:35:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T15:35:39","slug":"spoken-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/14\/spoken-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoken Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Spoken-Here.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Spoken-Here.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Spoken Here\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-867\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Spoken-Here.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Spoken-Here-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I\u2019ve just finished reading a language book \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Spoken-Here-Travel-Threatened-Languages\/dp\/009946022X\"><em>Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages<\/em><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markabley.com\/\">Mark Abley<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>We are frequently told about languages dying, and this book explores some endangered languages and what efforts are being made to preserve them. The languages range from Aboriginal Australia (Mati Ke and Murrinh-Patha) to Manx, the language of the Isle of Man located in the Irish Sea.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not too difficult a read, as the focus is on the culture and people who speak the language rather than the technicalities of how it\u2019s constructed. Whilst there is some discussion of grammar, luckily it\u2019s not too technical. Abley\u2019s passion for his subject shines through in the book and the humour he brings to situations is welcome. He doesn\u2019t offer a solution to the \u2018problem\u2019 of disappearing languages, but shows what may happen when they are lost.<\/p>\n<p>Has anyone else read the book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just finished reading a language book \u2013 Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages by Mark Abley. We are frequently told about languages dying, and this book explores some endangered languages and what efforts are being made to preserve them. The languages range from Aboriginal Australia (Mati Ke and Murrinh-Patha) to Manx, the language of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,99,154],"tags":[842,359,25,843,845,844],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-indigenous-languages","category-research","tag-aboriginal-languages","tag-endangered-languages","tag-languages","tag-manx-language","tag-mark-abley","tag-spoken-here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}