Samantha Ellis

The problem with trying to resuscitate dying languages

Ross Perlin is determined to support the ‘last speakers’ of endangered tongues, such as Seke. But if these speakers really are the last, they are not, in any real sense, speaking

Ross Perlin. [Credit: Cecil Howell]
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  • Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues

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