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Scenario

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.

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.

Your guide for this
Patan
Patan works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Multilingualism and its gifts?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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