# How to Kill a Language

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- Book: [How to Kill a Language](https://www.bookquiver.com/sophia-smith-galer/how-to-kill-a-language) ([How to Kill a Language.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sophia-smith-galer/how-to-kill-a-language.md))
- Authors: [Sophia Smith Galer](https://www.bookquiver.com/sophia-smith-galer)
- Publisher: crown
- ISBN: 979-82-1708-697-9
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2026-07-07
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

An urgent, globe-spanning exploration of languages at risk, from Kichwa to Ukrainian, that asks: What do we lose—culturally, politically, and personally—when a language is silenced? “A...