Speak Not

A New Yorker Best Book of 2022A Globe & Mail Book of the Year"A stimulating work on the politics of language." LA Review of BooksAs globalisation continues languages are disappearing faster than e ...

A New Yorker Best Book of 2022A Globe & Mail Book of the Year"A stimulating work on the politics of language." LA Review of BooksAs globalisation continues languages are disappearing faster than ever, leaving our planet’s linguistic diversity leaping towards extinction. The science of how languages are acquired is becoming more advanced and the internet is bringing us new ways of teaching the next generation, however it is increasingly challenging for minority languages to survive in the face of a handful of hegemonic ‘super-tongues’.In Speak Not, James Griffiths reports from the frontlines of