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Starboard Tack

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Sat Feb 18, 2012, 07:29 PM Feb 2012

Digital tools 'to save languages' [View all]

Facebook, YouTube and even texting will be the salvation of many of the world's endangered languages, scientists believe.

Of the 7,000 or so languages spoken on Earth today, about half are expected to be extinct by the century's end.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17081573
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Digital tools 'to save languages' [View all] Starboard Tack Feb 2012 OP
Waste of time. Igel Feb 2012 #1
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