After 250 years, we don't need an ‘official language'

Ross Perlin is a linguist, translator and author of 'Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York.'
To hear what this land really sounds like, go to Hilo on the Big Island of Hawai'i and Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation in northwest Wisconsin. Go to Mashpee on Cape Cod, Diné College in Arizona and Alaska's Kuskokwim River. Then go to cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Houston.

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