NOTES ON QUOTES: Losing Languages And Saving Mother Tongues (fwd link)

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NOTES ON QUOTES: Losing Languages And Saving Mother Tongues

By Gordon and Marcia Mercer, The Raleigh Telegram
USA

RALEIGH – “One language dies every 14 days,” says Russ Rymer of the
National Geographic Society.

By most calculations there are between 6,000 and 7,000 languages on planet
earth. There is fear, however, that by beginning of the next century 50% to
80 % of existing languages will be gone.

Reasons for the mass extinction often involve a larger culture doing
something, usually bad, to a smaller culture. In the United States, for
example, even into the 1950s, Native American Indian children were punished
at school for speaking in their native tongue.

Article Posted: Monday, August 27th, 2012.

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http://raleightelegram.com/201208273013
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