Saving A Language

Tue Mar 16 00:29:51 UTC 2010

An estimated 7,000 languages are being spoken around the world. But  
that number
is expected to shrink rapidly in the coming decades. What is lost when a
language dies?

In 1992 a prominent US linguist stunned the academic world by  
predicting that by
the year 2100, 90% of the world's languages would have ceased to exist.

Access full article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8311000/8311069.stm
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