Conserving endangered languages

Experts estimate that almost half of the world's 6000-7000 existing languages are endangered.

In the case of UNESCO this involves promoting the collection, recording and preservation of languages in order to build up a sound bank and to disseminate audio-visual materials.

1. A people, become poor and enslave, when they are robbed the tongue, left them by their ancestors: they are lost forever.

1. Respecting individual language rights
2. Reducing global linguistic attrition
3. Protecting languages

1. Recording dying languages

1. Providing necessary skills
2. Conserving endangered cultures

1. Transcribing language phonetically
2. Reducing discrimination against minority languages
3. Advocating use of mother tongue

1. Denying right of peoples to use their own language

1. Protecting endangered art

1. Endangered unwritten languages

1. Self-preservation
2. Revival
3. Preservation
4. Endangered
5. Death