Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts

Thursday, 30 May 2013

The ‘Byari’ story: “Your mother tongue matters”

According to UNESCO’s list of endangered languages, 2473 out of 6700 languages spoken worldwide are facing the threat of extinction. And India tops the list with 197 languages that are dying out and fast disappearing. With the passage of a few more generations, by the end of the century, nearly half of the languages spoken today are estimated to become extinct!