Every 14 days a language dies. By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth—many of them not yet recorded—may disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment, and the human brain.
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- Map Shows Most Spoken Languages in Each State Besides English and Spanish
While there were once more than 300 indigenous languages spoken in the U.S., it is thought that only 20 will be spoken in 2050.
11/29/2024 - 2:35 am | View Link - Almost All Languages Appear To Follow Zipf's Law, And We Have No Idea Why
Even the languages we haven't deciphered yet, such as the one in the Voynich Manuscript, appear to follow this rule.
11/27/2024 - 8:02 pm | View Link - OpenAI, Meta and Orange to Train AI Models on African Languages
OpenAI and Meta Platforms Inc. will begin training artificial intelligence programs on African languages, addressing a shortage of models for the continent’s thousands of dialects.
11/25/2024 - 10:50 pm | View Link - Endangered languages are dying rapidly. Linguists are trying to save some of them
By the end of the century, more than 40% of the world's estimated 7000 thousand languages are in danger of disappearing. Those include indigenous languages in the Amazon. The United Nations estimates ...
11/25/2024 - 7:16 pm | View Link - The Race to Save the World's Vanishing Languages
Thousands of languages are facing extinction, and researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to preserve and revitalize them. Can this technology save endangered languages before it’s too late ...
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