Five Year Project Aims to Catalog Endangered Languages (fwd link)

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Five Year Project Aims to Catalog Endangered Languages

By Paul Sisco
Washington
18 June 2008

While there are nearly 7,000 languages, only 83 are used by a majority of the
world's population.  Researchers say many of the rest are in danger of
disappearing, warning that perhaps half the world's native languages will no
longer exist by the end of the century. David Harrison with the Living Tongues
Institute for Endangered Languages says language extinction is a crisis of
unprecedented proportions and he is trying to do something about it. VOA's Paul
Sisco has more.

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