A global exploration of the many writing systems that are on the verge of vanishing, and the stories and cultures they carry with them. If something is importan

Endangered animals are drawn into uniquely crafted letters in this bold alphabet book that provides information on the habitat and class of these rare creatures

"The world has more than 6,000 languages, but those languages are written in fewer than 100 alphabets--more than a third of which are endangered. Oddly gnarly o

Presents an overview of the living, endangered, and extinct languages of the world, providing the total number of speakers of the language, its history, and map

Of the approximately 7,000 languages in the world, at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of the twenty-first century. Languages are endangered by a n