Reviving Dead Languages
Bringing a language back to life is damned hard. So why resuscitate?
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Show Notes
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?
Visit Lexicon Valley. A Booksmart Studios production. Episode 237: "Reviving Dead Languages." With John McWhorter. Produced and edited by Mike Vuolo. All rights reserved.
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