Jun. 27, 2012 at 4:13pm with 814 notes
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theantidote: Vanishing Languages | NG One language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear, as communities abandon native tongues in favor of English, Mandarin, or Spanish. What is lost when a language goes silent?  Photo: from SERI language, Mexico: “hant iiha cöhacomxoj,” ones who have been told the ancient things She’s blind and nearly deaf, but Isabel Chavela Torres still passes on traditional knowledge. The Seri names for species in the Sonoran Desert and Gulf of California reveal behaviors scientists have only recently begun to discover. (via kateoplis:)

theantidote:

Vanishing Languages | NG

One language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear, as communities abandon native tongues in favor of English, Mandarin, or Spanish. What is lost when a language goes silent? 

Photo: from SERI language, Mexico: “hant iiha cöhacomxoj,” ones who have been told the ancient things

She’s blind and nearly deaf, but Isabel Chavela Torres still passes on traditional knowledge. The Seri names for species in the Sonoran Desert and Gulf of California reveal behaviors scientists have only recently begun to discover.

(via kateoplis:)

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