Assoc. Professor Adam Schembri (Director, Centre for Research on Language Diversity, La Trobe University) addresses myths and misunderstanding around sign languages, and the pressures that are making sign languages increasingly endangered.

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Professor Kate Burridge (Chair of Linguistics, Monash University) on the success of the English language, the considerable cost and the widespread linguistic destruction it has caused.

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Professor Jane Simpson (Head of the School of Language Studies at the Australian National University) on how Indigenous Australian languages had to evolve and adapt to accommodate words for new concepts, such as glass and goats.

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Professor Jane Simpson (Head of the School of Language Studies at the Australian National University) on how Indigenous Australian languages had to evolve and adapt to accommodate words for new concepts, such as glass and goats.

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Dr Nicholas Ostler (chairman of the Foundation for Endangered Languages and author of The Last Lingua Franca and Empires of the Word) on the need for languages, particularly English, to adapt to change. Can English be challenged as the world's lingua franca?

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