How Language Learning Apps Prevent Language Extinction

There are over 6000 languages spoken around the world now. Within the next century, 90% of these will disappear. This is a dire statistic, but it begs the question: can modern technology and language learning apps prevent language extinction?

Every language represents culture–a group of people sharing the same space, history, traditions, and beliefs. When languages go extinct, it’s not just words and vocabulary that go missing: it’s the memory of the people that spoke it.

Due to our increasingly globalized world, lingua franca is more important than ever before. But as we spend time, money, and effort into saving various species, we lack a widespread preservation movement for languages.

Today, a third of all languages have fewer than 1000 speakers worldwide. The statistics show that preservation efforts should be a high priority. Fortunately, due to modern technology and the ability to record and connect people, there is still hope for highly threatened languages.

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