“Fifty to ninety percent of the world’s languages are predicted to disappear in the next century, according to the The Rosetta Project, a collaborative, open-source endeavor by language specialists and native speakers around the world who are creating a ‘near permanent’ archive of the world’s languages. ” Kendra Mayfield —Word Up: Keeping Languages AliveWired)
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