By Aquila Bergstrom Source: Unesco Every two weeks, the world loses its last fluent speaker of a language. With that final voice vanishes not only a method of communication, but a sophisticated knowledge system of understanding; an entire epistemology shaped by land, survival, spirit, and the passage of time. The loss is quiet. There is no obituary. No ceremony. And yet, what disappears is irreplaceable. According to UNESCO, nearly half of the world’s approximately 7,000 la

By Nyx Joy Source: The UNESCO Courier “Instead of my world, there would soon be only ice, snow, stillness, death ; no more violence, no...

Ellie Drenth ‘I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, of ragged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains'. ‘My...