Tag Archives: language extinction

Çekoslovakyalilastiramadiklarimizdanmissiniz?

This article on “difficult languages” is The Economist at its absolute best. My title above is Turkish and apparently means “Were you one of those people whom we could not make into a Czechoslovakian?”. I especially liked the bit about different kinds of “we” in Kwaio, which is spoken in the Solomon Islands. We need [...]

A Pyramid of All the World’s Knowledge

One video which I really enjoyed this year was this 20-minute talk about endangered languages. I wasn’t particularly following this subject in any great depth before. Let’s just say raw curiosity can take one to some unexpected places. You can open it in a new window here. Dr. David Harrison says: There are 7,000 languages [...]