dying languages

Elsie Solomon, Gladys Kattan and Lisette Shashoua at Lisette's home in Montreal.

Arabic has a Jewish dialect, and these women speak it

March 15, 2017Culture

The Arab world used to be home to hundreds of thousands of Jews who spoke their own variants of Arabic. Today, Judeo-Arabic survives only in exile. We hear stories of language and exodus from three Judeo-Arabic speakers now living in Montreal. Plus, novelist Louie Cronin on satirizing linguistics.

A student of Khmer descent learns Kinh language (the official Vietnamese language) at the Lac Hoa Primary School in Soc Trang province.

The language apocalypse is coming, and many tongues are already all but dead

January 26, 2015Culture