http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/28/inuit-inughuit-eskimo-polar-arctic

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"This is the way the world ends.
Not with a bang, but with a whimper."

Last Alaska language speaker dies

A woman believed to be the last native speaker of the Eyak language in the north-western US state of Alaska has died at the age of 89.

At least according to the LA times ( Read more... )

Saving indigenous languages from extinction is the only way to preserve traditional knowledge about plants and animals that have yet to be discovered by Western scientists, says a linguist and cultural expert.

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Languages change, evolve and die. The shrinking world is the reasons many languages fall into non use. We will eventually all speak a common language, including variants due to issues of isolation, that will be an evolved form of English. Attempts to keep languages alive that would otherwise naturally fall into non use are a waste of resources ( Read more... )