Tuesday 20 October 2009

Endangered Languages

Following my last posting, Elinjo has forwarded to me a link to a video about languages of the world.

There are approximately 6,500 languages left in the world and one is disappearing every week (in average).. It is a very sad fact and a terrible loss for our culture (and our world).

For any of you who would like to know more, please follow this link, 'In Languages We Live'

I hope this video can be a wake-up call for all of us to start passing down any knowledge of culture and ethnic language that we have to our children and younger generations.

Every little step counts!

3 comments:

  1. Hi Brian,

    I'm terribly sorry for the really late reply.. Ups and downs of internet connection and every day routines are enough to make important things left unattended..

    I have viewed the videos and visited the website you sent in your comment, and they are very interesting.

    Thank you, especially for the link to the 'lernu' website. I would love to know more about Esperanto, even only a little bit in my scattered around learning time.. :-)

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  2. Hi Indri, thanks for posting a link to this on my blog. I've shared it round my Twitter friends so hopefully some will come and visit you here x

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  3. Hi Susy (uistlady)..

    Thank you :-)

    Hopefully, more people around the world are going to be aware about culture and language preservation..

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