How to Kill a Language
William Collins (Verlag)
9780008723736 (ISBN)
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Roughly 7,000 languages are spoken around the world today. Over half of them are expected to vanish in the next century – along with the wealth of information they contain, the family ties they represent, and the psychological benefits they confer. This mass extinction event is one of the most pressing cultural emergencies of our age.
Journalist Sophia Smith Galer journeys across continents and generations to chart the phenomenon of linguicide, or language death, and to uncover what’s behind it. From Ghana to Greece, Ukraine to Ecuador, her travels ultimately lead her back home: to Italy, where piaśintein, the Gallo-Italian language of her grandparents, is on the brink of vanishing forever.
Climate crisis, nationalism and war are decimating our languages – but there’s still hope. Smith Galer also spends time with the communities bringing their languages back, from Kurdish activists in Iran to Karuk campaigners in the forests of California, showing that another future is possible.
Sophia Smith Galer is an award-winning journalist, author and content creator based in London. She is credited for pioneering journalism on TikTok and won the British Journalism Award for Innovation of the Year for her work, as well as spots on lists such as Forbes Under 30, British Vogue’s 25 Most Influential Women in the UK, and the Evening Standard’s Faces to Watch in Books. She co-hosts the BBC World Service’s Where To Be A Woman podcast and has reported across four continents for the BBC and VICE News; her videos on language, technology and gender have been seen more than 160 million times on TikTok and Instagram where she explores etymology, language rights and linguistics. She studied Spanish and Arabic at Durham University and her family speak Italian as well as piaśintein, an unstandardised language from the historical region of Emilia classified as 'definitely endangered' by UNESCO.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.5.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 270 g |
| Themenwelt | Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-13 | 9780008723736 / 9780008723736 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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