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Vanishing Languages

Published: July 2012
US

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Vanishing Voices

One language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the
roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear, as
communities abandon native tongues in favor of English, Mandarin, or
Spanish. What is lost when a language goes silent?

By Russ Rymer
Photograph by Lynn Johnson

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