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languagehotspots
Language Hotspots
Enduring Voices Project
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Enduring Voices
Documenting the Planet's Endangered Languages
Losing Our World's Languages
Every 14 days a language dies. By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth—many of them never yet recorded—will likely disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment, and how the human brain works.
National Geographic's Enduring Voices Project strives to preserve endangered languages by identifying language hotspots—the places on our planet with the most unique, poorly understood, or threatened indigenous languages—and documenting the languages and cultures within them.
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Glossary: Terms Related to Languages and Language Endangerment
- Grammar
- Language Features
- Language Classification
- Language Contact
- Language Endangerment
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Resources
Language revitalization is the process of reversing language collapse or language decline. The Enduring Voices Project assists indigenous communities in their efforts to maintain their threatened languages. Examples of these efforts include the implementation of bilingual or language-learning programs for school-age children.
The long-term success of revitalization programs depends on state or official support. Languages benefiting from revitalization include Hawaiian, Maori, and Israeli Hebrew.
Technology—especially video, photography, sound recordings, and the Internet—helps small language groups encourage interest in their languages and cultures, both within their communities and throughout the world.
The following Web sites showcase efforts to revitalize indigenous languages:
Northwest Pacific Plateau | Canada | Anishinaabe | Klamath | Salish | Siletz Dee-ni | Oklahoma and the Southwest | North America | California | Oklahoma | Cherokee | Cherokees of California | Kanza | Lenape | Mesoamerica | Nawat | Mixtec | Northern South America | Caribbean | Guyana | Carib | Taino | U'wa | Wayuu Taya | Central South America | Aymara (in Spanish) | Enlhet (Lengua, in Spanish and German) | Southern South America | Chile (in English, Spanish, Aymara, Rapa Nui, and Mapudungun) | Mapuche | Southern Africa | Shiyeyi | Western Africa | N'Ko (alphabet used for Manden languages) | Australia | Northern Territory | Australia | Victoria | Katherine | Western Australia | Gumbaynggirr | Taiwan and the Philippines | Taiwan | Eastern Siberia | Alaska | Eastern India and Malaysia | Santal