The death of language? (fwd link)

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Saturday, 17 October 2009 10:59 UK

The death of language?

By Tom Colls
UK

An estimated 7,000 languages are being spoken around the world. But that number
is expected to shrink rapidly in the coming decades. What is lost when a
language dies?

In 1992 a prominent US linguist stunned the academic world by predicting that by
the year 2100, 90% of the world's languages would have ceased to exist.

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