Linguistic Expert: Non documented languages will soon fade out (fwd link)

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Linguistic Expert: Non documented languages will soon fade out

Last Updated: Tuesday, 22 February 2011, 9:70 GMT

The Head of Linguistics at the University of Ghana Legon, Prof. Kofi
Agyekum says the non documented Ghanaian languages are on the verge of
fading out, if proper measures are not taken to preserve and promote
them.

The United Nations has estimated that about half of the world’s 6,000
languages are endangered and might fade out.

But Prof. Agyakum, popularly known as “Opanyin Agyakum” says out of
the 45 of the about 200 languages in Ghana documented, only 11 are
taught in the classroom.

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