Using the Internet to save languages from extinction.
According to the Worldwatch Institute, there are 6,800 languages spoken in the world today; more than half of which are predicted to disappear by 2100. The ancient language of Ega, for example, is spoken by only 300 people in Ivory Coast and is in danger of going extinct. In an effort to preserve such languages, a group of linguists is organizing a huge online repository of the most rare languages in the world. Accessible to anyone over the Internet, it will provide researchers and laypeople with information about some of the most endangered languages on the planet.