June 2012
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“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done”
– Marie Curie
A Language Dies Every 14 Days →
The Earth’s population of seven billion people speaks roughly 7,000 languages…Seventy-eight percent of the world’s population speaks the 85 largest languages, while the 3,500 smallest languages share a mere 8.25 million speakers. Thus, while English has 328 million first-language speakers, and Mandarin 845 million, Tuvan speakers in Russia number just 235,000. Within the next...
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