Tuesday, October 5, 2010

New language identified in remote corner of India

In the midst of a period of rapid language extinction, with one language estimated to die every two weeks, linguists have found a small ray of hope.

Linguists reporting from a National Geographic expedition to India’s remote northeast corner have identified a language completely new to science. The language, known as Koro, belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language family, a group of some 400 languages that includes Tibetan and Burmese, the linguists said. Although some 150 Tibeto-Burman languages are spoken in India alone, [...]

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