More Than 1 Billion Speakers of Endangered Languages Get Access to Technology (fwd link)

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More Than 1 Billion Speakers of Endangered Languages Get Access to Technology
Microsoft Local Language Program announces new initiatives to provide
technology access, helping to grow local economies.

REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- It is estimated that
every 14 days a language dies. This means that during the Winter
Olympic Games, currently happening in Vancouver, B.C., one more of the
more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth — many of them not yet
recorded — will disappear, taking with it centuries of knowledge about
history, culture and the natural environment. Half of those languages
are expected to disappear by the end of this century.

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