Books by Lorna Gibb
“She’s exploring the complexity and diversity and richness of languages. There are short chapters on all sorts of things like language ecosystems, all the different sign languages from around the world, all the different whistling and click languages. You get a sense of the amazing chatter of the world. I found it quite powerful.” Read more...
The best books on Endangered Languages
Samantha Ellis, Memoirist
Interviews where books by Lorna Gibb were recommended
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Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues
by Ross Perlin -
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Poems from the Edge of Extinction: An Anthology of Poetry in Endangered Languages
ed. Chris McCabe -
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One & Everything
by Sam Winston -
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Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages
by Lorna Gibb -
5
Babel: An Arcane History
by R. F. Kuang
The best books on Endangered Languages, recommended by Samantha Ellis
The best books on Endangered Languages, recommended by Samantha Ellis
Of the world’s 7000 languages, around half are expected to be extinct by the end of this century. Samantha Ellis’s mother tongue is one of them. We asked her to reflect on what we lose when we lose a way of speaking—culturally, linguistically, emotionally—and to recommend five books about endangered languages.
