#68: What Happens When Languages Die?

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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