One of the most important issues facing humankind today is the rate at which our languages are dying. Some speakers of endangered and minority languages try everything they can to save or reawaken them. Julie Dennison speaks Shaetlan, a language of the Shetland Isles.
The health of Julie’s language, which is a combination of Scots and Norn (an extinct Scandinavian language spoken in Shetland for 1,000 years until the 19th century), never recovered from the influx of English speakers brought by the oil boom in the 1970s.