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World's Languages Dying
"Linguists believe half the languages in the world will be extinct by the end of the century. The 80 major languages such as English, Russian and Mandarin are spoken by about 80 per cent of the global population, while the 3,500 linguistic minnows have just 0.2 per cent of the world keeping them alive. The pace of language extinction we're seeing, it's really unprecedented in human history." The Independent (UK) 09/19/07
"Linguists believe half the languages in the world will be extinct by the end of the century. The 80 major languages such as English, Russian and Mandarin are spoken by about 80 per cent of the global population, while the 3,500 linguistic minnows have just 0.2 per cent of the world keeping them alive. The pace of language extinction we're seeing, it's really unprecedented in human history." The Independent (UK) 09/19/07
Posted September 19, 2007 06:00 PM
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