<font size="2"><font face="georgia,serif">Published: 27/07/2010 07:54<br>Cambridge, UK<br><br>Video: Battle to save languages <br> <br>Hundreds of languages across the world are dying out. Valentina Jovanovski talks to the World Oral Literature Project about the desperate race to save them.<br>
<br>Out of the 6,700 languages spoken by people all over the world, a third are in danger of extinction. <br><br>Preventing this, or at least slowing the process, is the massive challenge faced by researchers and academics at the World Oral Literature Project, which was established by Cambridge University in January 2009.<br>
<br>Dr Mark Turin, director of the project and research associate at the Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, said the project has attracted much interest since its inception.<br><br>It works with local communities and fieldworkers who are now collecting and recording texts, myths, songs, legends, proverbs, narratives and other various literatures that can be used to save a language from vanishing without record.<br>
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