The Great Lakes Metropolitan Zone is the most linguistically compressed environment in human history. Twelve million people from every surviving culture on E…

# How People Talk in 2226 ## The Mouth Is Only One Channel Language in the GLMZ of 2226 is not what it was. This is a trivially obvious statement — languag…

…tained over 400,000 entries and was being cited in academic linguistics papers.

Part linguistic archaeology, part elegy, this book documents 200 languages and dialects that have been absorbed beyond recovery into the creole continuum of …