Google Embarks on Language Rescue Mission

Latin may be the most famous "dead" language, at least in that it isn't widely spoken beyond its use by the Catholic Church, but it is not lost to the ages. Linguists have been warning that nearly all human languages -- save for the most commonly spoken tongues -- could become extinct within the next 200 years. Of the 7,000 languages currently spoken around the globe, 50 percent will not survive the century, according to the Endangered Languages Project, which aims to preserve these languages by uploading documentation of rare dialects to a central website.

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