How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words Uwe Mayer one execution at a time

one execution at a time

and more beautiful way of living

she took the baby in

Shadows of violence and shame that she knows all too well

and her own experience of tracking her time for a decade

How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words Uwe Mayer one execution at a timeAn urgent, globe spanning exploration of languages at risk, from Kichwa to Ukrainian, that asks: What do we loseculturally, politically, and personallywhen a language is silenced? A vivid, hopeful portrait of how people around the world are staying connected to their linguistic roots.Gretchen McCulloch, author of Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language Languages can be killed in many ways: war, the climate crisis, nationalism, and