“If two thousand five hundred languages are to be lost in the course of the twenty-first century, don’t be in any doubt… — Andrew Dalby Copy Share Image
“over half the languages in the world, for example, have fewer than five thousand speakers, and over a thousand languages have under… — Nicholas Ostler Copy Share Image
No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image