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The World’s Vanishing Languages

Language is the greatest cultural achievement of the human race. A language, any language, is a creation of immense sophistication which has taken millennia to evolve. Nothing else tells us so much about a culture as its language. There are about 6,500-7,000 distinct languages in the world today. By the end of this century up […]

October 17, 2011

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