L'ISOLA - Vittorio Mortarotti and Anush Hamzehian | May 2021
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Designed by Marianna Fassio
Texts by Anush Hamzehian and Vittorio Mortarotti, Patrick Heinrich, Ken’ichiro Kondo, Raksit T. Lau-Preechathammarach, Gavan McCormack, Arne Røkkum, Mark Rosa
According to the mapping made by UNESCO in 2010 for the Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 250 languages have disappeared in the last fifty years and 3,000 are currently in danger.
Languages disappear at a speed that is unprecedented in the history of humanity.
A language dies bringing with it a precise knowledge of the environment that it has named for centuries: plants, animals, diseases, religion. Along with a language, a conception and a vision of the world disappear forever.
