Mapping Languages Inwards Danger

One World, Many Voices: Endangered Languages together with Cultural Heritage is an interesting Esri even out map highlighting a alternative of endangered languages to a greater extent than or less the world.

UNESCO approximate that to a greater extent than or less 3,000 languages to a greater extent than or less the globe are inward danger of disappearing yesteryear the halt of the century. This Esri even out map highlights simply a few of these languages, allowing you lot to nous to audio recordings of the languages together with acquire near the efforts beingness made to save the languages together with the communities that utter them.

If you lot select a linguistic communication from the carte or from the markers on the map you lot tin nous to a recording of the linguistic communication beingness spoken. If you lot select the 'learn more' push you lot tin uncovering out near what actions are beingness taken to assistance save together with revitalize the selected language.

UNESCO used to cause got an Atlas of the World's Languages inward Danger. That map appears to cause got been broken yesteryear updates to the Google Maps API. If you lot desire to map the languages yourself The Guardian Datablog has the information from the 2011 UNESCO listing of endangered languages.