Why to Save a Language

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 30

Sophia Smith Galer, UK-based journalist and the author of How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words (Crown, 2026), talks about what's lost when a language dies.

Photo: A person leads a finger on the lines in the book, but instead of letters only question marks on the page in the textbook.

 

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