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Language News: Language Diversity Index Tracks Global Loss of Mother Tongues – NatGeo News Watch
National Geographic is covering the publication of a new scholarly article about the diversity of languages on our planet and the catastrophic predictions about how many will be left at the end of the next century. The scholarly article, written … Continue reading →
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Language News: The Telegraph – Calcutta (Kolkata) | Nation | Mind your language! Save dying 100
The documentary “The Linguists” that was featured on LingEducator last week was about the efforts of two linguists who are trying to document the world’s endangered languages. Today’s The Telegraph (the newspaper of Calcutta, India) features efforts to do just … Continue reading →
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