Mariana Islands
Ross Perlin: “More people will know a few songs in Yiddish than can put together a sentence. It’s now a language that sometimes seems to have more poets than speakers.”
Can you bring a language back from the dead?

Losing a language is “like dropping a bomb on a museum, the Louvre”, claimed the linguist Ken Hale, and in the intervening 16 years since he died we’v(...)