#lanugage preservation and revitalization is cool

[shorlinesorrows]

I feel like people forget about this too often, so just a reminder that we are in the second year of UNESCO's International Decade of Indigenous Languages

(Basic info: A decade to prevent the disappearance of 3,000 languages – UNESCO-IESALC)

#indigenous languages are cool #lanugage preservation and revitalization is cool #looking for resources to support indigenous language speakers and communities around you is cool! #seriously tho if you're not an indigenous lanugage speaker #it's always worth seeing if there's people who are educating about/teaching the indigenous language in your area #and if possible taking a couple classes #some people predict that we could loose around 3000 languages before the turn of the century (nearly half of all spoken languages!!!) #more pessimistic data projections says that it's possible to loose 90% of spoken languages by 2100 #and most would be indigenous #not to be a language nerd on main but this is literally terrifying and we should be doing everything to stop it #language #linguistics #langblr