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Hunting One Language, Stumbling Upon Another

By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Published: October 11, 2010
USA

Two years ago, a team of linguists plunged into the remote hill
country of northeastern India to study little-known languages, many of
them unwritten and in danger of falling out of use.

On average, every two weeks one of the world’s recorded 7,000
languages becomes extinct, and the expedition was seeking to document
and help preserve the endangered ones in these isolated villages.


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