Last Linguist: Endangered Languages, Their Final Speakers, and the Knowledge That Dies With Each One

There is a man who wakes up one morning as the only person left on Earth who can speak his own native language. There is a woman who buries a word she has no one left to say it to. There are two elderly neighbors, the last two speakers of their language, living five hundred metres apart, who barely speak to each other at all.This book is about them, and about the several thousand languages now sta...