What If Babel Was Just a Myth?
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English - December 22, 2021 17:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsTV & Film pop culture social justice educational culture and society marginalized voices Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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According to Unesco, a human language disappears every two weeks. Within a century, 50 to 90 percent of all languages will be gone. Does it matter? Spoiler alert: Yes. Ariel interviews both documentary filmmaker Sandrine Loncke and her subject, Florian Lionnet. They discuss how language encodes culture and worldviews, and the threat to our humanity when languages are lost.