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 […]