English kills.(Dying languages, linguists believe one language is lost everyday)(Brief Article)
Economist (US), The, June, 1998
PROPPED up on a shelf in George Hewitt's office at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies is a picture of Tevfik Esenc. Esenc, who died in 1992, was the last speaker of Ubykh, the language of a Muslim group that was driven from present-day Georgia into the Ottoman Empire in 1864.
Mr Hewitt has identified 40 languages and dialects under threat in the Caucasus region, and he is working against the clock to document and record as many as he can. But the problem is not a regional one. Linguistics experts believe that endangered languages around the world are slipping out of our heritage at the rate of one a day. According to Nicholas Ostler, founder of the Endangered Languages Foundation (ELF)-a charitable organisation set up three years ago to...
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