A closer look
When armies march, they don’t just conquer land—they conquer voices. Thousands of languages have been extinguished not by fading naturally, but by being punished out of daily life, outlawed from schools, or bulldozed by power. The languages we use today carry invisible shadows: soft words once spoken in valleys, mountain chants, lullabies—all silenced. Every sentence you speak is laid across this hidden burial ground, reminding us that language is not just communication but a record of who was allowed to exist.
