WHAT DOES THE WORLD LOSE WHEN A LANGUAGE DIES?

PBS News Hour, USA
2015, 7 min 2 sec

“Language Matters,” a PBS documentary, explores how linguistic heritage is intrinsically intertwined with local knowledge and concepts as well as sustainable visions. But these languages and their ancestral knowledge are now at risk of being lost forever around the world. Poet Bob Holman elucidates his fight to revive languages inherently part of our common world legacy.