A language dies every 14-days!

Nearly 80 percent of the world's population speaks only one percent of its languages.

These are two statistics that we don't hear quoted so often. I've heard about nature hotspots, locations where flora and fauna are threatened, but this is the first time that I came across language hotspots.

National Geographic and Living Tongues started a project called the Enduring Voices Project that aims to preserve endangered languages, first by identifying them and then by documenting the languages and cultures within.

Via World Hum