Thursday, September 25, 2014

EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES

As every September 26th we celebrate the European Day of Languages.
There is an official website with all the relevant information.

Here is a beautiful drawing by Rafael Malmagro (ESO Year 2) to illustrate this importante day for languages.

Having a universal language like English can be great on many occasions but there is a downside: other languages are quickly disappearing.

In the last years there have been several movements to preserve these "endangered" languages around the globe. Here are a few examples:

* The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accessible digital library of human languages.

* The Endangered Languages Project tries to support language documentation and preservation around the world.
Endangered Languages Project

A project to support language preservation and documentation around the world

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