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David Crystal
Dying, dying, dead: Writing the obituary of languages
Hay Festival 1999,
Half the world's languages will be dead this time next century. In this Predictions Lecture, Crystal asks why, reflects on what can be done about it, and reads extracts from a play he has written to publicise their plight.
