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Language Steamrollers

Are the "languages of power" driving many of our 6,000 languages to extinction?

World Service,2 episodes

Episodes

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The Rise and Rise of English
How English is rapidly spreading through films and the internet
08 May 2000,13 mins
Is the Future one World, one Language?
More than half the world's 6,000 languages are dying out. Are we losing our differences?
15 May 2000,13 mins