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  1. Endangered languages: There's nothing benign about benign neglect
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    in many cases, language death occurred not because of an increase in the available choices, but because of a decrease in choice brought about by the exercise of undemocratic power. Such power is almost always wielded by denying access to resources from which communities make their living. Languages can only exist where there is a community to speak and transmit them. A community of people can exist only where there is a viable environment for them to live in, and a means of making a living. Where communities cannot thrive, their languages are in danger. When languages lose their speakers, they die. The idea that linguistic diversity should be preserved is not a sentimental clinging-on to some idealized past as critics suggest, but part of the promotion of sustainable, appropriate, empowering development.
  2. Enduring Voices
    Resource Type: Website
    Documenting the planet's endangered languages and featuring Talking Dictionaries giving listeners a chance to hear samples of little-known languages.
  3. 'It's like bombing the Louvre'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Marie Smith Jones was the world's last Eyak speaker - by the time she died last week, she could use her mother tongue only in her dreams. But the loss of a language is not just a personal tragedy, it is a cultural disaster
  4. Language death
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    Resource Type: Article
    A process that affects speech communities.
  5. A Network of Indigenous Language Digital Activists in Mexico
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The Internet has emerged as a space where many in Mexico can communicate online using indigenous languages, as well as to create new digital content instead of being just consumers of content.

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