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Muted Tongues: A Timeline of Suppressed Languages
Compiled by Olga Olina, Hallie Ayres, and Anton Vidokle
Linguists calculate that at the current speed, almost half of the world’s 7,151 languages will disappear before the end of this century. This timeline is an incomplete account of language politics in many parts of the world, starting roughly from the beginning of nation-states.
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 10, 2022
Category
Language & Linguistics, Nationalism
Subjects
History