"one language dies every 14 days" <br>hmmmmmm...really?<br>what happens when there is only 33 languages left? or 3 languages left? will they still die every 14 days?<br>By these statistics, eventually, in time, even English and Mandarin will be on the chopping block.<br>
each 14 days apart from extinction of course.<br>maybe by then we'll at least have some silence...from statisticians <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">statistics are weird.<br><br>-Richard<br><br><br>On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cashcash@email.arizona.edu" target="_blank">cashcash@email.arizona.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font><font face="georgia,serif">NOTES ON QUOTES: Losing Languages And Saving Mother Tongues<br><br>By Gordon and Marcia Mercer, The Raleigh Telegram<br>
USA<br><br>RALEIGH – “One language dies every 14 days,” says Russ Rymer of the National Geographic Society.<br>
<br>By most calculations there are between 6,000 and 7,000 languages on planet earth. There is fear, however, that by beginning of the next century 50% to 80 % of existing languages will be gone.<br><br>Reasons for the mass extinction often involve a larger culture doing something, usually bad, to a smaller culture. In the United States, for example, even into the 1950s, Native American Indian children were punished at school for speaking in their native tongue.<br>
<br>Article Posted: Monday, August 27th, 2012.<br><br>Access full article below:<br><a href="http://raleightelegram.com/201208273013" target="_blank">http://raleightelegram.com/201208273013</a><br></font></font>
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