17 Feb 2004
Extinction Of Human Languages

I originally caught the link below via Slashdot, where the concern was about the loss of human languages from the perspective of programming languages. I'm not sure that's a valid concern, but, as the piece points out, with each language lost there's a huge hole being punched in human cultural history.

Half of all human languages will have disappeared by the end of the century, as smaller societies are assimilated into national and global cultures, scientists have warned.

(link) [New Scientist]

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