<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><b>Globalization Helps Preserve Endangered Languages</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4"><br>
</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4">A globalized internet, with Skype, YouTube and WordPress, connects and preserves language diversity</font><div class="" style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:5px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:15px">
<div class=""><span class="">Mark Turin</span></div><div class="" style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;padding-right:15px"><span class="">YaleGlobal</span>, <span class="">3 December 2013</span></div>
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<span class=""><p style="padding:0px 0px 12px;margin:0px;line-height:20px;color:rgb(30,30,30);font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:13px">NEW YORK: No one should be too surprised to overhear an endangered language spoken in the heart of Manhattan – endangered because their speakers have ceased to use them or are simply dying. Home to more than 800 languages – more than a tenth of the world’s total number of living speech forms – the five boroughs of New York City are the most linguistically diverse urban settlement on earth.</p>
<p style="padding:0px 0px 12px;margin:0px;line-height:20px;color:rgb(30,30,30);font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:13px">Whether inside iconic yellow cabs or among passengers chatting in the colorful No. 7 train somewhere between Flushing and Times Square, people in this bustling metropolis speak endangered languages every day. The clicks and tones that cabbie just used on the phone to his cousin may well have been in a language at risk of disappearing.</p>
<p style="padding:0px 0px 12px;margin:0px;line-height:20px;color:rgb(30,30,30);font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:13px">Access full article below: </p><div><a href="http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/globalization-helps-preserve-endangered-languages">http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/globalization-helps-preserve-endangered-languages</a><br>
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