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How To Kill A Language, with Sophia Smith Galer (Part Two)

Intelligence Squared by Intelligence Squared

May 26, 202635:41Society & Culture

What do we lose when a language dies? Roughly 7,000 languages are spoken around the world today. Over half of them are expected to vanish in the next century – along with the wealth of information they contain, the famil...

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How To Kill A Language, with Sophia Smith Galer (Part Two) is an episode from Intelligence Squared by Intelligence Squared. What do we lose when a language dies? Roughly 7,000 languages are spoken around the world today. Over half of them a...

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Published May 26, 2026, 35:41 long, audio available.