Archive - Mar 11, 2009

UNESCO launches new edition of online Atlas of the World's Indigenous Languages in Danger

From UNESCO Cultural Sector

UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger is intended to raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to safeguard the world’s linguistic diversity among policy-makers, speaker communities and the general public, and to be a tool to monitor the status of endangered languages and the trends in linguistic diversity at the global level.