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| Title | Article: Linguists Scramble To Save The World's Languages |
| Body | From http://www.rferl.org/content/Linguists_Scramble_To_Save_The_Worlds_Languages/1964101.html Language endangerment, a global phenomenon, has likely never before been so pervasive. As small, minority languages give way to socioeconomic and cultural pressures, they also yield to languages that replace them. In the process, unique linguistic and anthropological information is lost forever. "Can it [language loss] be stopped or slowed? It's very difficult to know how that could happen," says Doctor Nicholas Ostler, chairman of the UK-based Foundation for Endangered Languages. Read the full article at http://www.rferl.org/content/Linguists_Scramble_To_Save_The_Worlds_Languages/1964101.html |
| Source | Radio Free Europe |
| Inputdate | 2010-02-21 11:57:28 |
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