A new story in the Los Angeles Times covers a British financial comparison company’s efforts to record and preserve endangered world languages. GoCompare, which mostly traffics in flights and all things travel, is working with speakers of 25 endangered languages, asking them to record conversations for the sake of documentation.
Among the languages that have been recorded and published are the indigenous Australian language Wiradjuri, the North American indigenous language Ojibwe, and the South Asian language Balti.
UNESCO defines an endangered language as one that is either no longer spoken, spoken in increasingly few styles, or no longer passed down to children. Roughy 2,500 languages currently fit that description.
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