<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">14 September 2010 </span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">UK</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Are dying languages worth saving?</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">How people are trying to preserve endangered languages</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Language experts are gathering at a university in the UK to discuss saving the world's endangered languages. But is it worth keeping alive dialects that are sometimes only spoken by a handful of people, asks Tom de Castella?</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">"Language is the dress of thought," Samuel Johnson once said.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">About 6,000 different languages are spoken around the world. But the Foundation for Endangered Languages estimates that between 500 and 1,000 of those are spoken by only a handful of people. And every year the world loses around 25 mother tongues. That equates to losing 250 languages over a decade - a sad prospect for some.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Access full article below:</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11304255">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11304255</a></span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">