Issue 473

June 2014 - "Save our speech - the politics of language loss"

• GUIDE TO THIS MONTH'S ARTICLES - JUNE 2014

From this month's magazine:

• How much do you know about languages? - Try this quiz

• Languages big and small - the facts

• Languages - a revolution

• What is a language?

• Are riots good for democracy?

• Xiaolu: "If you can't sell in China, you are nothing"

• Big Tobacco loses power in Senegal

• 'How did our community survive this?'

• Squatting in Spain: taking back their homes

From the blogs this month:

• Which football team should I support?

• "I made the decision to be free or die"

• Can you be a world-class football player and a good dad?

• "Our language is our soul" - saving Aymara

• Sign language is our first language

• Only school dinners for Spain's poorest children

• How can we secure food supplies?

• No-one cares about the raped and murdered girls

• Fracking – four things UN climate negotiators must know

• Goa and the western paedophile group

• Being a mother - a personal journey

• Hart Island is New York’s secret graveyard