Christian missionaries remain busy translating the Bible into the world's smallest languages, the better to convert their speakers.Buddhism is also a translated religion.
About one-third of his 700 employees have advanced degrees in science or engineering, he explains, so he favors English and German over Romansh and Italian, the two smallest languages in Switzerland.
Totonacan languages, also called Totonac-Tepehua, a small language family of two branches, Totonac and Tepehua.
Also, his characters are everyday folk, and he had to learn how to make big ideas fit into small language.
"Latvian is a small language facing tough competition both from English and Russian, you have to protect it," he said.
For a small country with a small language, the sheer volume of Hungarian press offerings can make one's head spin.
But the schools that can enroll foreigners are a mixed lot, ranging from major universities to small language institutes, flight schools and beauty colleges.
Although Norway comprises one of the world's smaller language communities, the country is among the leaders in books published per capita.
When one language is bigger or more prestigious than the other, the temptation of the bigger one's speakers to put the smaller language on a distinctly lower pedestal is hard to resist.
Katrina, anyway, is not a subject that can be considered in small language, and nor, for that matter, are the problems of this small family, who face their maiming with such courage and grace.
