منابع مشابه
Endangered languages, endangered knowledge
ogist, and ethnobiologist. She is cofounder and President of Terralingua: Partnerships for Linguistic and Biological Diversity. Terralingua is an international NGO based in Washington, DC, devoted to supporting the world’s linguistic diversity and to exploring the links between linguistic, cultural, and biological diversity, through research, information, education, and policy. She is editor of...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Social Science Journal
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0020-8701,1468-2451
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2451.00390