Never mind whales, save the languages (fwd link)

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Never mind whales, save the languages

Peter Monaghan | June 24, 2009
Article from:  The Australian

WORRIED about the loss of rainforests, the ozone layer, quokkas? Well, none of
those is doing any worse than a large majority of the 6000 to 7000 languages
that remain in use on earth. One-half of the survivors will almost certainly be
gone by the middle of this century, while 40 per cent more will probably be well
on their way out. In their place, almost all humans will speak one of a handful
of megalanguages - Mandarin, English, Spanish - although often a poor version
of them.

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