When Languages Die: The Explainers

The high-demand framing: why tongues go silent, what extinction costs, and what survives on tape. Langfocus, Storied, The Economist, PBS NewsHour, ELAR director Mandana Seyfeddinipur's TEDx talk, the Endangered Languages Project intro and UNESCO's Parlez-Vous Eyak?

Playlist by @language_archive_docs

10 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. Language Death: How do languages die? — Langfocus
2. How Languages Die | Otherwords — Storied
3. Why do languages die? — The Economist
4. What does the world lose when a language dies? — PBS NewsHour
5. Endangered languages: why it matters | Mandana Seyfeddinipur | TEDxLSHTM — TEDx Talks
6. Languages That Came Back from the Dead (feat. @LingoLizard) — K Klein
7. The Curious Case of India's Dying Languages — Scroll.in
8. Language Birth; Language Death — Connor Quimby
9. Introducing the Endangered Languages Project — endangeredlanguages
10. Parlez-Vous Eyak? — UNESCO