1. Why do linguists study languages, and what is lost when a language dies?
2. What areas do Gregory and David choose when they are looking for languages to research?
3. Who typically stops speaking the indigenous language, and why do you think that is?
4. What has been the role of boarding schools on the use of indigenous languages? Provide some examples.
5. What is the conflict between education for indigenous groups and preservation of language? Is there a way to resolve this conflict to the benefit of the indigenous groups?
6. Since many tribal people are not Hindu, where do they fit within the Hindu paradigm of the world?
7. What is elicitation?
8. In what way or ways does Kallawya have great importance for Western societies?
9. How is language typically transmitted within a culture and what makes Kallawya different?
10. Why do researchers Gregory and David show indigenous people the audio and video records they created?
11. Find how many languages in the world are threatened or endangered, and which are the languages that have the fewest speakers in the world. Which region has the most threatened languages in the world?