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Dying Languages, Fading Formats

Posted by michael on from the rosetta-cd-rom dept.

utopyr writes "A story on BBC News looks briefly at the problems in preserving human languages in digital formats. The scope of the problem? Of the world's roughly 6,500 languages (of which, fewer than 500 are listed here), half will be extinct within the century, as the last speakers die. However, formats are proving even more ephemeral than human memory."

2 of 355 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Dead Languages Coming to Movie Theater... by easter1916 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mel Gibson seems to be a bit of nutjob Christian fundamentalist.

  2. IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by mythr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ..they speak the language we all should be speaking. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)