Obituaries.  Too often, those whom the world needs most are taken too soon.  Here are my tributes to: Roger Hammond, Dragana Vilinac, Hugh Blackett, Clive Marsh

Alice Mutasa.  Several photos of Julian Caldecott on the web-site were taken by Alice and are used with her permission.

Foundation for Endangered Languages.  Co-founded by Nicholas Ostler, author of Empires of the Word, Ad Infinitum, and Passwords to Paradise, this is a group supporting thousands of the world’s languages that are likely to die out within a generation or two.