The Last Word: The World of Endangered Languages

“The topic is serious, but these are still just interesting stories from the world of languages.”
“The Last Word. The World of Disappearing Languages” is a new book by the author of “Linguistics on the World Map” Rustam Hadzhiiev. He tells how languages ​​are born, change, disappear, and sometimes miraculously revive.
From theories of the origin of language and methods of its research to specific human destinies. In the book, along with Joseph Greenberg’s index and William Labov’s experiment, there are stories about a toothless Dalmatian and a volcano that destroyed language, about puppets in the Czech Republic and scams by mobile operators in Mexico, about Thai dams and Chilean grandmothers. The author talks about the last speakers of forgotten languages, women’s writing in China, and the revival of Hebrew.