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

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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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