Hundreds of languages across the world are dying out. Valentina Jovanovski talks to the World Oral Literature Project about the desperate race to save them. Preventing the deaths of many languages, or at least slowing the process, is the massive challenge faced by researchers and academics at the World Oral Literature Project, which was established by Cambridge University in January 2009. It is an exceptional step in the right direction & everyone should be commended for their efforts so far.
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Saturday, July 31, 2010
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