19 September 2007

What did you say?

Human languages are dying out at the rate of one a fortnight according to the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. The rate seems implausibly high but who am I to argue? The five worst affected areas are an area including bits of Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico (Native American languages), northern Australia, (Aboriginal languages), central South America (Native American languages), parts of the Pacific Northwest and eastern Siberia. So get out there and learn Amurdag, will ya?

A map of the affected regions and other information is to be found here.

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