Canada should support the endangered language protection accord (fwd link)

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Canada should support the endangered language protection accord

February 17, 2010
Nazrul Islam
Canada

The culture sector of UNESCO recently published a chilling report
asserting that more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages are
endangered.

It pointed out that 96 per cent of the world’s languages are spoken by
just four per cent of the world’s population, that 90 per cent of the
world’s languages are not represented on the internet, that one
language disappears on average every two weeks, and that 80 per cent
of African languages have no orthography.

So how and why does this happen, and what’s the impact of this loss of
languages on the social and economic structure of a country?

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