More Loss of Linguistic Diversity in the Americas than the Pacific, Australia, and Africa
mathias | March 4, 2011
Linguists claim 50-90% of the world’s languages will die by 2100, but are they being overly grim to attract more aid? According to National Geographic, a recent Index of Linguistic Diversity (ILD) by Terralingua founders David Harmon, and Jonathan Loh, calculated that the world has in fact experienced a 21% reduction in indigenous languages over [...]

