Losing languages, losing worlds
The world’s languages are dying. And the pandemic didn’t help.
Maria Morova | CNN | April 16, 2021
Loved ones to Covid-19. Homes to forest fires. Clean air to climate change. The past year has stolen much of what sustains us.
But we’re in danger of another devastating loss, just under the surface. And it’s the cultural bedrock on which our lives and identities are constructed: our world’s languages.
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