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When You Become the Last Speaker of a Language Variation

My grandmother is dying and I'm losing the last person who speaks my village dialect and I don't know how to carry it forward.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Linguistic inheritance carries the weight of cultural preservation that may exceed individual capacity to maintain.

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.