Posted AT 12:16 PM EDT on 10/08/05
No one here speaks that
Washington — Every two weeks or so, the last elderly man or woman with full command of a particular language dies. At that rate, as many as 2,500 native tongues will disappear forever by 2100.
David Lightfoot is helping spearhead a U.S. government initiative to preserve some of these dying languages, believing that each is a window into the human mind that can benefit the world at large.
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