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#68: What Happens When Languages Die?

2020/7/2
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There are 7,000 languages spoken across the world.

Yet 80% of the population speaks just 1.1% of the languages, and 43% of the languages are endangered.

What happens when they die out?

In today's episode we cover:

  • How people feel differently when speaking different languages
  • The 12 'dominant' world languages
  • Why have certain languages dominated?
  • Why do languages die out?
  • When the last two speakers of a language hate each other
  • Dying languages in the UK
  • Hawaiian - a revival success story
  • Reviving a dead language
  • Written vs. oral languages
  • Should we save languages?
  • Why language is a part of culture

Full transcript and key vocabulary available on the website www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/dying-languages)


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