^

Imma gonna
need more candles

For 2600
generations

of the world’s
languages..

..are spoken by six percent
of the world’s population

A language dies every two
weeks

languages
have only
speaker left

By the year 2100, 90%
of the world's languages will be extinct. Some linguists claim that

Competition? Globalization? Shifting Allegiance? Linguistic
Warfare? Disease? Genocide? Epidemic? Glottopolitics?

Indifference.

Indifference**is injurious to our health

Imagine being the only speaker
of your language..

Extinction of a language does
have its economic and practical advantages..

But the death of each
language is another step on a treadmill towards humankind’s cultural oblivion .. http://thelousylinguist.blogspot.com/2010/03/is-language-death-all-that-bad.html - The Lousy Linguist

It is a loss like
none other

‘When I think of my
tongue being no longer alive in the mouths of men, a chill goes over me that is deeper than my own death, since it is the gathered death of all my kind.’ - David Malouf in The Only Speaker of His Tongue

A language is not just
a way to communicate.. Tonight? Nope.

A language is a way
of being..

each language is ’a whole
alternative universe, since the world as we know it is in the last resort the words through which we imagine and name it. - David Malouf

Stop cruelty to Languages!

Preserve Us. Nurture Us. Pass
Us on.

Goodbye then!

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Trivia In case you couldn’t identify, the lady in the sizzling outfit is Bo Derek. The musician is Bo Diddely. Now go Google it. Slide 6 and 7 have some Braille characters at the top and some Sign language symbols at the bottom.

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