How To Kill A Language, with Sophia Smith Galer (Part Two)
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorrenti. Roughly 7,000 languages are spoken around the world today. Over half of them are expected to vanish in the next century. So what do we lose when a language dies?
In this episode, we return for part two of our live event with journalist Sophia Smith Gaylor. Smith Gaylor joined us recently at the Kiln Theatre to discuss The global crisis of linguicide. She was in conversation with chief presenter at BBC News, Mariam Moshery. Live at the Kiln Theatre, Smith Gaylor drew on her new book, How to Kill a Language, to explore what happens when languages vanish, and with them histories, identities, and ways of understanding the world.
From Italy to Iran, Ghana to California, she examines both the forces driving linguistic extinction and the communities fighting to keep endangered languages alive. If you haven't heard part one, Do just jump back an episode to catch up. But now let's return to the conversation live at the Kiln Theatre in London. I feel like when my kids were born I was I really wanted to speak fasty to them.
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