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Jul 13, 2012

"A different language is a different vision of life." --Federico Fellini

Vanishing Voices: The World's Endangered Languages

"One language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear, as communities abandon native tongues in favor of English, Mandarin, or Spanish. What is lost when a language goes silent?" This in-depth National Geographic feature probes the beauty, significance, richness and fragility of the world's vanishing tongues.