Both a celebration of the world’s languages and a call to action to preserve global linguistic diversity, “Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues” is a motion poem written in 50 endangered languages, from Yiddish to Nuer (South Sudan) and Adnyamathanha (Australia).

Compiled by the poet and language activist Bob Holman, the work is at once delightful, melancholic, and mesmerizing. You may recognize the director of this project from Language Matters with Bob Holman (a PBS program aired in January 2015).