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67: Dying Words (featuring Nick Evans)
Languages are disappearing. In the next hundred years, half the world's languages may be gone. But is this really a problem? What do we lose when we lose a language? And can the process be halted? We catch up with linguist Nick Evans, author of 'Dying Words', on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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Languages are disappearing. In the next hundred years, half the world's languages may be gone. But is this really a problem? What do we lose when we lose a language? And can the process be halted? We catch up with linguist Nick Evans, author of 'Dying Words', on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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