How To Kill A Language, with Sophia Smith Galer (Part One)
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Welcome to Intelligent Squared where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorenti. 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?
Today's episode is part one of our recent live event with journalist Sophia Smith Gaylor. Smith Gaylord joined Marianne Moshiri, chief presenter at BBC News, to discuss the global crisis of linguicide. Live at the Kiln Theatre in London, Smith Gaylord 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.
Let's join our host, Mariam Mashiri, live at the Kiln Theatre. Hello everyone. A very warm welcome to the event this evening. My name is Mariam Mashiri. I'm so happy and honored to be here tonight to introduce this event with Sophia Smith-Gaylor.
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