Vanishing Voices
Subtitle: The Extinction of the World's Languages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 14, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780195152463
First sentence: A few years ago, linguists raced to the Turkish farm village of Haci Osman to record Tevfic Esenc, a frail old man believed to be the last known speaker of the Ubykh language once spoken in he northwestern Caucasus.