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Tongues on the EDGE: language preservation priorities based on threat and lexical distinctiveness

Languages are being lost at rates exceeding the global loss of biodiversity. With the extinction of a language we lose irreplaceable dimensions of culture and the insight it provides on human history and the evolution of linguistic diversity. When setting conservation goals, biologists give higher p...

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Autores principales: Perrault, Nicolas, Farrell, Maxwell J., Davies, T. Jonathan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5750020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29308253
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171218