Language Matters with Bob Holman is a 2015 documentary that focuses upon the rapid extinction of many of planet Earth's human languages and the multifarious struggles and efforts to save and preserve them.
Languages have always come and gone but what is happening today is "a global crisis of massive proportions "...
The feature is directed by David Grubin and narrated and hosted by Holman[1] The film spans the globe to visit three geographic areas Australia (both out in the Outback of and in the Goulburn Islands off of the Northern Territory), Hawaii and Wales or as the film's own website explains..."Language Matters was filmed around the world: on a remote island off the coast of Australia where 400 Aboriginal people speak 10 different languages, all at risk; in Wales, where Welsh, once in danger, is today making a comeback; and in Hawaii, where Hawaiians are fighting to save their native tongue.
[5] Levi Asher in writing for the online journal, Literary Kicks says in reviewing the film that... "it is a delightful and captivating two-hour documentary".
He later concludes his commentary on the piece by stating, "Language Matters appears to be a television documentary about remote cultures and faraway peoples.