<p>WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE 2024<br><br><br>Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and - because many have never been recorded - when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history: contemporary New York.<br><br><br>In Languag...