<font size="2"><font face="georgia,serif">Confronting the Mass Extinction of Languages<br><br>by David Nathan<br>Director, Endangered Languages Archive, University of London.<br>First Posted: Apr 17 2011 15:51 PMUpdated: about 17 hours ago<br>
UK<br><br>We've come a long way in documenting the 90 per cent of languages facing extinction, but rescuing them is another story.<br><br>Who benefits from research? What if that research involves recording personal conversations among some of the world's most vulnerable communities? These are questions that linguists are asking today as they explore “documentary linguistics” – an emerging discipline concerned with endangered languages.<br>
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