The reading and the interview definitely caught me off guard because the topic of languages dying is something that I have not considered as much. I often forget how many languages that there are in the entire world. It is great that here are initiatives to preserve these languages because we can learn so much about history and culture through language. I thought that it was really nice that the article acknowledges how there has been institutions set in place in the United States with the goal to limit language. This makes me wonder what minority languages were already lost before the Living Tongues Institute was able to step in.
Also, reading the article made me think about another similar initiative to preserve languages called Wiki Tongues. I have seen Wiki Tongues’ videos on YouTube in which people would speak Spanish and Catalan. I have seen that there a lot of other languages and dialects on their YouTube page but it did not occur to me until now that the point of the initiative is to preserve the languages! I think that this is so powerful and necessary!
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