A new study suggests regions where Indigenous languages are under threat face the greatest consequences from language loss. Cherokee, an endangered language, is pictured above in an undated document from Yale’s Kilpatrick Collection of Cherokee Manuscripts.
A new study suggests regions where Indigenous languages are under threat face the greatest consequences from language loss. Cherokee, an endangered language, is pictured above in an undated document from Yale's Kilpatrick Collection of Cherokee Manuscripts. Grambank, a database of 2,467 languages that Yale linguist Claire Bowern helped create, helps researchers better understand the stakes when languages die off. Languages, like animal species, can go extinct. More than half of the world's approximately 7,000 signed and spoken languages are currently endangered. And without intervention they are likely to become extinct, meaning nobody will speak or sign them any longer. While language loss is happening across the world, the costs vary strikingly in different places, according to a new study co-authored by Yale linguist Claire Bowern.
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