{"product_id":"9780008723729","title":"How to Kill a Language : Power, Resistance and the Race to Save Our Words","description":"Author(s): Smith Galer, Sophia, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 07\/05\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 304 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: William Collins,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: HarperCollins Publishers,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Language: history \u0026amp; general works,\u003cbr\u003e Dimensions: 162 x 243 x 29\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\/EAN\/SKU: 9780008723729\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Beautiful, thought-provoking, and compelling' SUSIE DENT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'An extremely moving, passionate plea' CAL FLYN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Sophia Smith Galer’s Nonna lay dying, she realised it wasn’t just a beloved grandmother she was losing – it was the language she spoke, too. From Northern Italy, she spoke a dialët that Sophia, like so many children and grandchildren of migrants, can understand but can’t speak. With the death of the language, Sophia would lose a culture, a history, an inheritance – a whole world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This tragedy reaches far beyond her family. Globally we are witnessing an unprecedented mass extinction event. By the end of this century half of the world’s 7000 languages will be gone, killed by war, climate breakdown, migration, nationalism or neglect, along with the vital knowledge that they have sustained for centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Award-winning journalist Smith Galer has journeyed across continents and generations to report from this disappearing world. From Ghana to Greece, Ecuador to Oman, California to the UK, she meets people experiencing this loss at first hand – but also campaigners and linguists who prove that a multilingual future is still possible. Her travels ultimately lead her back to where she began: to Italy, and the tiny mountainside village where the church bells still ring out for her Nonna.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e How to Kill a Language is an impassioned investigation into a hidden global crisis, and a call to speak, read and write the languages of our world, before it’s too late.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Everyone should read this book. Impressively researched, full of empathy and a page-turner to boot' OLIA HERCULES\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smith Galer, Sophia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56631592878466,"sku":"9780008723729","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/2180\/9347\/files\/9780008723729.jpg?v=1778259266","url":"https:\/\/mountfloridabooks.com\/products\/9780008723729","provider":"Mount Florida Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}