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Translators, adopting English, storytellers and endangered languages

Aspects of language in the 20th Century.

Hugh Lunghi was a translator for Churchill during World War II; Dovie Thomason is of the Native People of the Americas and is a storyteller; Ayo Bamgbose reflects on the adoption of English in Africa; Anver Mamedov is one of only a few speakers of Khinalig in Azerbaijan; and Sandra Galina is a translator at the EU headquarters in Brussels.

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28 minutes