“Absolutely, we are seeing an unprecedented funnelling and diminishing of the world’s language diversity.”
From “forced suppression and erasure” to digitisation and standardisation, languages around the world are going extinct, says award-winning British journalist, author, and content creator Sophia Smith Galer.
Sophia Smith Galer was speaking to Kait Borsay on The Evening Edition on Times Radio. Listen live every Monday to Thursday from 7pm to 10pm.
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