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How Language Loss Becomes a Form of Grief

I'm forgetting my mother tongue after fifteen years abroad and feel like I'm betraying my grandfather's memory.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Losing fluency in one's heritage language can feel like severing connection to ancestral wisdom and family lineage.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Multilingualism and its gifts?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.