Sreena’s Reviews > The Last Speakers: The Quest to Save the World's Most Endangered Languages > Status Update

Dying languages succumb
more discreetly. Village by village
they go under—no shouting,
no watery ruckus.
Just a simple, sudden absence.
It takes a shrewd eye to spot
these silent catastrophes,
and a frugal, determined heart
to intervene.

—John Goulet