http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070918-languages-extinct.html
Experts are warning of a "global extinction crisis" of the world's languages and have identified five hotspots where tongues are vanishing most rapidly.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070918-australia-video.html
Watch as language hunters in Australia's outback discover the only known speaker of a language long thought to be dead.
(crossposted:
geographile and linguaphiles)
Experts are warning of a "global extinction crisis" of the world's languages and have identified five hotspots where tongues are vanishing most rapidly.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070918-australia-video.html
Watch as language hunters in Australia's outback discover the only known speaker of a language long thought to be dead.
(crossposted:
geographile and linguaphiles)