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Andrew Dalby

Language in Danger

Hay Festival 2002, 
It is expected that a language will become extinct every two weeks of the twenty-first century. If so, must culture continue to become more impoverished? Dalby explores the 'life-cycle' of languages: their birth, their interaction and, especially, what happens when they die.