In “The Last Speakers” Harrison explains that hotspots are places that have linguistic diversity, the greatest language endangerment, and the least studied languages. Australia is one place with a significant amount of hotspots. In a cave in Australia, Harrison met with Charlie Mangulda, the last speaker of Amurdag. Amurdag is a language with words that have different metaphorical expression. For example, the word for “west” is the phrase “sun go down.” Charlie has trouble remembering all the parts of his language since he does not speak it often but it holds importance to
In “The Last Speakers” Harrison explains that hotspots are places that have linguistic diversity, the greatest language endangerment, and the least studied languages. Australia is one place with a significant amount of hotspots. In a cave in Australia, Harrison met with Charlie Mangulda, the last speaker of Amurdag. Amurdag is a language with words that have different metaphorical expression. For example, the word for “west” is the phrase “sun go down.” Charlie has trouble remembering all the parts of his language since he does not speak it often but it holds importance to