Eranti Dolbera is a speaker of a threatened tribal language known as Lanjia Sora, spoken in Rapjingtal, India. Photo by Opino Gomango for Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages as part of a Sora documentation project. Used with permission.

Museums of the mind

Why we should preserve endangered languages

Global Voices
Nov 6 · 4 min read

By Anna Luisa Daigneault

In commemoration of the United Nations’ Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL 2019)

Mrs. Dora Manchado, the last speaker of Tehuelche, passed away on January 4th, 2019, at the age of 86. She was well known in her native community in Patagonia, and beloved by many. Linguistic…

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