<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>
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