Sophia Smith Galer: How to Kill a Language
A journalist investigates the global decline of minority languages, drawing on her own family's loss of a grandmother's language, in a talk with the BBC's Megha Mohan. AI summary of the listing
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As Sophia Smith Galer’s Nonna lay dying, she realised it wasn’t just a beloved grandmother she was losing – it was the language she spoke, too. With the death of the language, Sophia would lose a culture, a history, an inheritance – a whole world. This tragedy reaches far beyond her family. Globally we are witnessing an unprecedented mass extinction event. Award-winning journalist Smith Galer has journeyed across…
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