[etni] Languages in danger of dying out
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Languages in danger of dying out
aljazeera.net - August 10, 2005
Experts say language is a people's reflection on the world.
Every two weeks the last elderly man or woman with full command of a
particular language dies. At that rate, as many as 2500 native tongues will
disappear by 2100.
"If we are going to lose half the world's language, that endangers our
capacity to understand the genetic basis of language," said David Lightfoot,
who heads the directorate of Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences at
the National Science Foundation.
Lightfoot is helping to spearhead a US government initiative to preserve
some of these dying languages, believing each is a window into the human
mind that can benefit the world at large.
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