endangered languages
Saving Endangered Languages…. more
Tweet There is a current belief that perhaps consolidating into fewer language groups will grease the wheels of peace, progress, trade, and education, but I disagree. Many of the reasons why have been summed up beautifully in the prolific author David Crystal’s book, Language Death. Anyone interested in the subject will find a thoughtful and […]
Saving Endangered Languages
Tweet A few thousand languages are endangered. Should we care? The next few posts will be on this subject. There is a certain pathos to the idea of a single speaker, master of a language nobody speaks anymore, living in a hut somewhere alone and unable to communicate. In his book Collapse, Jared Diamond conjures […]