Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mother’s Day edition

[tharyn]

Did you know that there are about 7000 languages spoken in the world today?

And that about half of them aren’t being taught to children anymore?

Which means that soon, half of the languages in the world will be gone.

The estimate is that, with the death of an elder, a language dies every two weeks.

Comments

[deana_in_texas]

I like that idea of the Language Archive. I'd watch it. But of course, that's part of the reason why I decided to become a linguist... <3 languages. That sounds like a fantastic mother/daughter tradition :)

And that food looks delicious!