The Leaning Tower of Babel
What We Lose When Languages Die
ROSS PERLIN ROSS PERLIN is Co-Director of the Endangered Language Alliance and teaches linguistics at Columbia University. He is the author of Language City: The Fight to Preserve
Endangered Mother Tongues in New York.
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A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think BY CALEB EVERETT. Harvard University Press, 2023, 288 pp.
The world’s 190-odd nationstates are home to 7,168 “living languages,” according to the latest figure from Ethnologue, a...
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