Ross Perlin is a linguist, writer and translator. He has written for the New York Times, the Guardian, Harper's and n+1 and the Endangered Language Alliance has been covered by the New York Times, the New Yorker, BBC, NPR and many others. He is also the author of Intern Nation.
"A work of sweeping ambition that succeeds on every level: reportorial, explanatory, stylistic, political -- Margalit Fox, author of THE CONFIDENCE MEN What a rich and explosively vital book. Now to all New York's other superlatives we can add ""the most linguistically diverse city in the history of the world."" -- Russell Shorto, author of THE ISLAND AT THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD Language City is a treasure. Each page brims with fascinating historical details that somehow manage to give New York more meaning and importance than it already had -- Alejandro Varela, author of THE TOWN OF BABYLON"