Google fights to save 3,054 dying languages (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

Google fights to save 3,054 dying languages

By Chris Taylor, Mashable
updated 10:15 AM EDT, Thu June 21, 2012

(CNN) -- Will you be any worse off the moment humans cease to speak in
Aragonese? How about Navajo, or Ojibwa? Or Koro, a language only just
discovered in a tiny corner of northeast India?

No, you probably wouldn't, not in that moment. But humanity would be.
Science, art and culture would be. If, as the phrase goes, another language
equals another soul, then some 3,054 souls -- 50% of the world's total
languages -- are set to die out by 2100.

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