Jan 25, 2021
“We worry a lot,” says one Indigenous leader. “They have so much more to tell.”
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“We worry a lot,” says one Indigenous leader. “They have so much more to tell.”
The Indigenous Gitxsan language is under siege, but by harnessing the very technology that threatens to erase it, one Facebook Group, Gitxsan Got Talent, is renewing interest in the language.
The Gitxsan community is hosting a virtual talent contest to support the revitalization of their language!
There are over 7,000 languages spoken in the world today. Just 23 of those languages account for the native languages of 4.1 billion people. The vast majority of the world's languages are tiny—spoken by just a small number of speakers.
https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1810040/infographic-world-languages
In graphics: a world of languages - and how many speak them