khiranoの日記： Language Death 1

Kazunari Hirano Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 10:13PM To: [e-mail] Hi, http://www.caslt.org/research/languagedeath.htm I have read a book, (Japanese translated) "Language Death" by David Crystal. He has spent a lot of time of his life on preservation of Welsh. The rate of death computes at one language dying roughly every two weeks!! 6000 languages are faced with extinction!! Did you know that? I didn't know that. When I was a university student, I learnt that about 6000 languages were spoken across the globe. Then almost all languages are faced with extinction? What can we do? What should we do? What do you think can OpenOffice.org help them survive? http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/aynu_team.html A member of Aynu Localization Team khirano http://www.transwift.net/pukiwiki/