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On the death and life of languages / Claude Hagège ; translated by Jody Gladding

Languages and life. Languages, providers of life -- Languages, living species -- Language and speech -- Words and the struggle for life -- Languages and death. What is a dead language? -- The paths to ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Want to Learn Cherokee? How About Ainu? This Startup Is Teaching Endangered Languages

Some linguists estimate that roughly half of the world’s 7,000 or so languages are on the verge of extinction. A language might die out when a small territory is forced to integrate with a ruling ...
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When languages die : the extinction of the world's languages and the erosion of human knowledge / K. David Harrison

1 A World of Many (Fewer) Voices -- 2 An Extinction of (Ideas about) Species -- Case Study: Vanishing Herds and Reindeer Words -- 3 Many Moons Ago: Traditional Calendars and Time-Reckoning -- Case ...
The Nation Newspaper

‘Igbo language will not die in one million years’

The prediction by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) that the Igbo Language will go into extinction by 2050 is not based on any empirical evidence, a ...
The Nation Newspaper

‘Don’t let Igbo language die’

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has expressed grave concern over what it called the gradual erosion of Igbo language, culture and values. The organisation therefore called on ...