Want to Learn Cherokee? How About Ainu? This Startup Is Teaching Endangered Languages | Innovation | Smithsonian - 0 views
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Lara Cowell on 27 Nov 17Some linguists estimate that roughly half of the world's 7,000 or so languages are on the verge of extinction. The UK-based startup Tribalingual is trying to prevent those types of sociolinguistic losses, offering classes that connect students with some of the few remaining speakers of endangered languages.