Vanishing Languages Identified
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Oklahoma has earned the dubious distinction of being one of the five worst "language-loss hotspots" in the world -- places where native languages are going extinct the fastest -- according to an analysis released yesterday.
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Global warming is increasingly rendering Inuit and other Arctic peoples at a loss for words. They simply do not have names in their languages for the temperate species flocking up from the south.
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A new system of sign language developed by deaf children in Nicaragua may hold clues about the evolution of languages.
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According to the Telegraph, the Pirahã &quot;have little social structure, no art, and they barter instead of using currency. Their language is limited to just 10 consonants and vowels.&quot; The only words they have for numbers are &quot;one,&quot; &quot;two&quot; and &quot;many.&quot; ...
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By S.E. Ruckman, Tulsa World, Okla.  Feb. 12--Language is sort of like Play-Doh. It can be molded to fit the needs of those using it.   An anthropologist friend recently encouraged me to think of spoken American Indian languages that way.
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Language Implimentation Pack, that is
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Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, more than 120,000 hours of potentially valuable terrorism-related recordings have not yet been translated by linguists at the
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A new sign language created over 30 years by deaf Nicaraguan children, gives a unique insight into how languages evolve.
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English-derived neologism bids for world domination God alone knows what Cervantes would have made of it, but the English term "blogosphere" has slithered onto the growing list of neologisms shoehorned into the noble Castillian language, joining chatear, chip, formatear, Internet and mÃ³dem in a burgeoning list of tech and net-based foreign vocab.â¦Learn &amp; Contribute, Live &amp; Online - The Register Debates Green Computing
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In Latin America, the memory of the "disappeared" never went away. In the United States, they were hardly ever known.
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PARENTS, teachers and other adults who feel they can no longer understand what children say should not get in a hookie or become hula-lula about it - youngsters really do speak a different language.
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Something seems to be missing from online weather maps.
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Functional Languages seem to be pushing for the title of the next cool thing.  Talks and tutorials about them are starting to show up in conferences and conventions, books about them are hitting the shelves, people are even asking about talking about them in blogs and mailing lists devoted to some of the current hot languages.
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âThe Linguists,â a film focused on studying the worldâs vanishing languages,  has its premiere this week at the Sundance Film Festival.
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About 16,000 words have succumbed to  pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new  edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
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By Steve Connor Many animals and plants threatened with extinction could be saved if scientists spent more time talking with the native people whose knowledge of local species is dying out as fast as their languages are being lost.
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Experts try to establish what  caused the disappearance of a glacial lake in southern Chile over just a few weeks.