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Some intriguing articles listed below. Encourage teams to research DISAPPEARING LANGUAGES + FUTURE. Different sites have different slants on the topic. Be aware of who is presenting the facts as you research.

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A LOSS FOR WORKS Can a dying language be saved?

Judith Thurman The New Yorker March 30, 2015  

It is a singular fate to be the last of one's kind.

LANGUAGES: WHY WE MUST SAVE DYING TONGUES  Rachel Nuwer   BBC FUTURE
Hundreds of our languages are teetering on the brink of extinction, and as Rachel Nuwer discovers, we may lose more than just words if we allow them to die out. 


THE FUTURE OF AMERICAS ENDANGERED LANGUAGES  Matt Hansen

The Week   Star Wars in Navajo? 


ENDANGERED LANGUAGE  Wikipedia  


DISAPPEARING LANGUAGES Rosemarie Ostler Whole Earth Catalog

Many linguists predict that at least half of the world's 6,000 or so languages will be dead or dying by the year 2050.


WHAT IS AN ENDANGERED LANGUAGE? Anthony C Woodbury Linguistic Society of America


VANISHING LANGUAGES Vanishing Voices Russ Rymer National Geographic  

One language dies every 14 days.


SAVING VANISHING "TONGUES" Stephen Ornes Student Science 

Ong uyan madongo?


25 MOST ENDANGERED LANGUAGES IN THE WORLD  


DISAPPEARING LANGUAGES: Enduring Voices Documenting the Planet's Endangered Languages Gregory Anderson, Linguist National Geographic Talking Dictionaries


A WORLDWIDE COLLABORATION TO STRENGTHEN ENDANGERED LANGUAGES A project by the Alliance for Linguistic Diversity

 


ENDANGERED LANGUAGES National Science Foundation Why it matters and other implications


LANGUAGES DIE BUT NOT THEIR LAST WORDS John Noble Wilford New York Times