Endangered Languages
The link above is to a website that shows the geographic locations of dying languages and several other pieces of information relating to that language. It even includes videos sometimes of people speaking the language if you click on one of dots on the map. This entire website is about the nature of dying languages and trying to keep the culture that they bring alive by making them more available through the internet. They've estimated that there are around 7,000 languages being spoken in the world but half of them won't continue to be in use within the turn of the century. This website even states that 40% of all languages spoken at the moment are endangered and could potentially become extinct. I think that a website like this is amazing and by making the languages free to see on the internet, it creates a larger group of people who are aware of that language therefore reinforcing the culture and keeping it alive longer. In conclusion I hope that everyone gets a chance to check out this website and find out about languages that are even in Arizona that I had no idea about.
