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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."

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  1. Sanskrit by Shant3030 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sanskrit? You're majoring in a 5,00 year old dead language? Hmmm... Latin, best I can do. Phys Ed? Get out of here. I mean, no, really get out of here.

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