This documentary asks: What do we lose when a language dies? What does it take to save a language? 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 a group of Hawaiian activists are fighting to save their native tongue.

Originally released by PBS, 2015. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 15, 2017.

Amurdak (4:29); --Arnhem Land (3:45); -- Linguists (2:04); -- Multilingual Groups (2:54); -- European Colonization (2:28); -- Creation Myth (4:02); -- Endangered Languages (4:33); -- Translating English (3:19); -- Developing Language (2:16); -- Cultural Traditions (2:50); -- Corroboree (2:21); -- Songmen (2:25); -- Welsh Language (3:31); -- Eisteddfod Prize (1:26); -- Learning Welsh (3:55); -- Colonization of Wales (3:15); -- Capel Celyn (2:10); -- 1960s Welsh Movement (3:16); -- Welsh Education (3:13); -- Love of Language (3:22); -- Welsh Music (2:18); -- Welsh Poetry (2:04); -- The Stomp (4:01); -- Hawaiian School (3:28); -- Decline of the Hawaiian Language (4:36); -- Kupuna (2:18); -- 1960s Activism (5:16); -- Hawaiian Alphabet (4:07); -- Mele (4:23); -- Pele the Fire Goddess (3:02); -- Translating Hawaiian (3:27); -- Educating Children (3:28); -- Endangered Languages (3:27); -- Credits: Language Matters with Bob Holman (0:59); .