How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance and the Race to Save Our Words'Moving, beautiful and important' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Punchy and persuasive' SUNDAY TIMES As Sophia Smith Galers Nonna lay dying, she realised it wasnt just a beloved grandmother she was losing it was the language she spoke, too. From Northern Italy, she spoke a dialt that Sophia, like so many children and grandchildren of migrants, can understand but cant speak. With the death of the language, Sophia would lose a culture, a history, an inheritance a