Reviving Dead Languages

Lexicon Valley from Booksmart Studios

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Reviving Dead Languages

Bringing a language back to life is damned hard. So why resuscitate?

Apr 28, 2022

More than half the world’s approximately 7,000 languages will have no speakers left in the coming decades. Some are working feverishly to preserve or maintain them. Others are asking: Why bother? John explains.

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