New language discovered in India (fwd link)

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Oct 05, 2010
USA

New language discovered in India

In the midst of a period of rapid language extinction, with one
language estimated to die every two weeks, linguists have found a
small ray of hope, they discovered a language previously unknown to
science in the far northeastern corner of India.

A team of linguists working with National Geographic's Enduring Voices
project uncovered this hidden language, known as Koro, in the state of
Arunachal Pradesh. A member of the Tibeto-Burman language family, it
has only 800 to 1,200 speakers and is unwritten.

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