Endangered languages, endangered thought

[Francis Hult]

The UNESCO Courier

 

Endangered languages, endangered thought

 

Some 200 languages have become extinct in the last three generations, according to the new "UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger". When languages die out, not only words disappear, but ways of seeing and describing reality; we lose valuable knowledge and worlds of thought.

 

http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=44549&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

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