2022年1月5日 · The project draws attention to the “drastic and accelerated loss of the world’s languages” and could help preserve many endangered and “sleeping” languages for future generations. The UNESCO International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL2022-2032) , which begins this year, also aims to engage the global community with the critical ...

2017年12月21日 · Data came from a language tree of several hundred Austronesian languages published by University of Auckland researchers in 2009, and from Ethnologue, an online database of over 7,000 living languages. (All told, there are more than 1,200 Austronesian tongues today, making it one of the world’s largest language families.)

2020年2月19日 · Ahead of International Mother Language Day 2020, UNESCO shares how some endangered languages at borders manage to thrive, promoting peace and empathy. 2,895 languages are endangered today, but some can thrive under the right conditions.

2018年3月15日 · She and her brother, Pablo — now Resígaro’s last known speaker, making it one of the most endangered languages — were the children of a Resígaro mother and Ocaina father. They spoke their mother's language to honor her and were also among the last 40 speakers of Ocaina.

2015年10月30日 · According to analysis of the most popular 10 million websites by W3techs, after English, the most common languages are Russian (5.9%), German (5.7%), Japanese (5.0%), and Spanish (4.7%). Moreover, a significant number of national languages (such as Hindi and Swahili) are used by less than 0.1% of these websites, and most of the world’s ...

2017年5月2日 · “Languages are vehicles of our cultures, collective memory and values,” UNESCO wrote in its Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger. And yet this important cultural heritage is at risk. According to the Atlas, almost 3,000 languages around the world are either extinct or under threat of becoming so.

2018年10月9日 · Efforts are now underway worldwide to remind people of this reality. The United Nations has designated 2019 as the “International Year of Indigenous Languages” in order to raise awareness of indigenous languages as holders of “complex systems of knowledge” and encourage nation states to work toward their revitalization.

2017年5月10日 · To save dying languages, use ‘evolutionary trees’ To save as much linguistic diversity as possible in the face of many languages rapidly going extinct, researchers propose using “evolutionary trees".

2018年12月13日 · With 10 languages accounting for nearly 90% of the top 10 million websites, a tiny fraction of the world’s 7,097 languages dominate online life. And discrepancies are stark: Spanish, which has 437 million native speakers, accounts for just 5.1% of websites, while German is the second most common language online, but isn’t one of the top 10 ...

2022年10月17日 · The head of the WWF has called for the world to adopt a goal of being “nature positive” by 2030. The WWF’s Living Planet Report 2022 finds wildlife populations have declined by an average 69% in the past 50 years.