News Headline

As forests are cleared and species vanish, there's one other loss: a world of languages

Source
Guardian (UK)

Publication Date
2014-06-09

A new report shows a direct link between disappearing habitats and the loss of languages. One in four of the world's 7,000 spoken tongues is now at risk of falling silent for ever as the threat to cultural biodiversity grows.

Content
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/why-we-are-losing-a-world-of-languages