First Aid for minority languages – learning world

What is the role of education when it comes to preserving minority languages? Learning World takes a look.

==UNESCO== estimates that half of more than 6,000 languages spoken today will disappear by the end of the century.

There are all sorts of reasons why some languages die and others thrive. We go to Kenya to report on efforts to keep alive the Yakku language, which is spoken by only ten people in a remote area of central Kenya. We speak to a linguist in Hungary who works for the UN on mi…
READ MORE :

What is in the news today? Click to watch:

euronews: the most watched news channel in Europe
Subscribe!

euronews is available in 14 languages:

In English:
Website:
Facebook:
Twitter:
Google+:
VKontakte:

source