Endangered languages, endangered knowledge
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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 On Biocultural Diversity: Linking Language, Knowledge, and the Environment (2001). Email: [email protected] Endangered languages, endangered knowledge
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