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Alarm: Every Two Weeks a Mother Tongue Disappears Due to Globalisation

MADRID, Feb 21 (IPS) – “Every two weeks a language disappears taking with it an entire cultural and intellectual heritage. At least 43% of the estimated 6000 languages spoken in the world are endangered. Only a few hundred languages have genuinely been given a place in education systems and the public domain, and less than a hundred are used in the digital world.”

Read the full story, “Alarm: Every Two Weeks a Mother Tongue Disappears Due to Globalisation”, on globalissues.org

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