AN INTEGRAL PART of biocultural diversity, cultural expression through language, is central to how knowledge and values pass across generations. In today’s globalising world, digital communication is captivating youth, but there is no reason this should drive them to abandon their own heritage and languages.
More than half of the 7,000 documented languages are spoken by fewer than 5% of its people, including many Indigenous and marginalised traditional cultures. One language dies with its last speaker about every two weeks, taking with it the accumulated history and knowledge of that culture’s ...
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