Hacklog: Blogamundo — poking holes in the language barrier since approximately 1 month from now

The National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities and Smithsonian Institution budget $2 million in funding to protect 6,000-7,000 declining languages. — NPR : A Plan to Save Thousands of Endangered Languages

(Not exactly sure how accurate those numbers are; most estimates of the number of languages in the world that I’ve cite around 6000 or 7000 as an upper bound; they can’t all be declining.

…Not that such bookkeeping nitpickery has any bearing on the importance and urgency of language preservation efforts.)