Dying Words

"A fascinating and colourful view of what we are losing as languages die, by a linguist who understands the significance of our loss more deeply than most."
–Greville G. Corbett, University of Surrey

"Nick Evans’ book is an elegant, eloquently rendered narrative of the human story as revealed through our languages. With deep erudition in world literatures both oral and written, he captures the interplay between speaker and tradition, word and thought, language and land; and he shares with his readers the intellectual life of speakers and humanist-scientists seeking to preserve and document this heritage."
–Tony Woodbury, University of Texas at Austin