2,500 languages threatened with extinction: UNESCO (fwd link)

[phil cash cash]

Thanks for the reminder!  Consider it done.  Phil
Quoting "Gibson, Loring" :

> Hello.  I had requested that the contact information for Rosetta 
> Stone be changed to Katie Burner at kburner at rosettastone.com.  Please 
> let me know if this has been received be the right person. Thank you 
> very much for all of your help!
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: 2,500 languages threatened with extinction: UNESCO (fwd link)
>
> 2,500 languages threatened with extinction: UNESCO
>
> 4 hours ago
>
> PARIS (AFP) — The world has lost Manx in the Isle of Man, Ubykh in Turkey
and
> last year Alaska's last native speaker of Eyak, Marie Smith Jones, 
> died, taking
> the aboriginal language with her.
>
> Of the 6,900 languages spoken in the world, some 2,500 are 
> endangered, the UN's
> cultural agency UNESCO said Thursday as it released its latest atlas of world
> languages.
>
> That represents a multi-fold increase from the last atlas compiled in 
> 2001 which
> listed 900 languages threatened with extinction.
>
> Access full article below:
>
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hC3HaSBPpUrVb0BHVDhzNNsC91IA


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