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The top 10 most endangered languages in Europe - K International 

The top 10 most endangered languages in Europe - K International  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Every 14 days, a language dies. And they aren't just in third-world countries, either. Here are the top 10 endangered languages in Europe and the UK ..."

Dallas Raulerson's curator insight, March 7, 2017 11:33 AM
This gives us a incite on languages because there are so many old languages that people still use to this day because of there culture or where it diffuses from other places. This relates to our class because we are talking about old languages and where they originated from and how people use them today and this is talking about how people are starting to learn other languages and people just forget about them. 
Alison Merritt's curator insight, March 7, 2017 1:17 PM
This article relates to human geography because it talks about endangered languages such as Cornish, and in key issue 4 it talks about how they are trying their best to preserve that language by teaching it in schools. I did not realize that every 14 days a language falls silent, and how much people are doing to try to preserve the language but it just is not working.
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Can social media help save the world’s endangered languages?

Can social media help save the world’s endangered languages? | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"In Oklahoma last week, Emily Johnson Dickerson passed away at the age of 93. She was the last monolingual Chickasaw speaker. The number of fluent Chickasaw speakers has been in decline since the 1960s ..."

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