“It happens all too often - people regret that their language and culture are being lost but at the same time decide not to saddle their own children with the chore of preserving them.” — Andrew Dalby Copy Share Image
“Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.” — Andrew Dalby Copy Share Image
“On the basis of this information, it would be possible to argue that if everybody spoke English (or Chinese or Esperanto for that matter)… — Andrew Dalby Copy Share Image
“If two thousand five hundred languages are to be lost in the course of the twenty-first century, don’t be in any doubt about what… — Andrew Dalby Copy Share Image
“The fact that in the twentieth century a greater proportion of the people in the world could communicate with one another, using English or… — Andrew Dalby Copy Share Image
“It happens all too often - people regret that their language and culture are being lost but at the same time decide not to… — Andrew Dalby Copy Share Image
“Words for completely novel concepts and technical breakthroughs are devised as soon as needed, explained with ease and absorbed with scarcely an effort by… — Andrew Dalby Copy Share Image
