Half of living languages face extinction (fwd link)

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Half of living languages face extinction
A new research project is documenting thousands of endangered
languages – before we lose them forever

Lucy Tobin
guardian.co.uk,	
Monday 21 February 2011 17.00 GMT

You'll never again hear anyone speaking Laghu, and anyone yearning to
communicate in Old Kentish Sign Language is out of luck: it, too, has
gone the way of the dodo. But there's still a chance to track down a
conversation in Gamilaraay, or Southern Pomo – if you're prepared to
trek to visit to one the few native Americans still speaking it in
California. Of the 6,500 living languages currently being used around
the world, around half are expected to be extinct by the end of this
century.

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