How to Kill a Language Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words, US Edition | 7.01 MB
Title: How to Kill a Language Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words, US Edition
Author: Sophia Smith Galer
Category: Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Linguistics, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology, History, Civilization
Language: English | 304 Pages | ISBN: 9798217086986
Description:
An urgent, globe-spanning exploration of languages at risk, from Kichwa to Ukrainian, that asks: What do we lose-culturally, politically, and personally-when a language is silenced?
"A vivid, hopeful portrait of how people around the world are staying connected to their linguistic roots."-Gretchen McCulloch, author of Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Languages can be killed in many ways: war, the climate crisis, nationalism, and even quiet choices made at the dinner table. Around the world, an unprecedented shift is drawing speakers toward national and global lingua francas. For some, that means losing the language of parents or grandparents; for many, it is a permanent farewell to systems that carry knowledge, culture, and belonging. With half of our 7,000 languages due to disappear this century, linguicide is one of the most pressing cultural emergencies of our age.
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