{"id":1673,"date":"2002-02-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/02\/21\/2002-02-21-three-thousand-languages-in-danger-of-disappearing\/"},"modified":"2002-02-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-02-21T12:00:00","slug":"2002-02-21-three-thousand-languages-in-danger-of-disappearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/02\/21\/2002-02-21-three-thousand-languages-in-danger-of-disappearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Thousand Languages in Danger of Disappearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/international\/AP-UNESCO-Dying-Languages.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>PARIS, FRANCE, February 20, 2002: About half of the world&#8217;s 6,000 languages are under threat of disappearing under pressure from more dominant tongues or repressive government policies, a new study says. From France and Russia to the Americas and Australia, minority languages and the heritage that goes along with them are at risk of dying out, according to a UNESCO study to be released Thursday. &#8220;With the death and disappearance of a language, an irreplaceable unit in our knowledge and understanding of human thought and world-view is lost forever,&#8221; said a statement by the Paris-based United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The 90 page study, &#8220;Atlas of the World&#8217;s Languages in Danger of Disappearing,&#8221; said the Americas and Australia had the worst record. &#8220;In the United States, less than 150 Indian languages have survived out of several hundreds that were spoken before the arrival of the Europeans.&#8221; According to the study, a native language can disappear when its speakers relocate and are required to speak the dominant tongue to get a job and function in the new society, or because they confront a more aggressive or economically stronger culture. Widespread bilingual or multilingual government policies on the Indian subcontinent have helped keep local languages alive there.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE PARIS, FRANCE, February 20, 2002: About half of the world&#8217;s 6,000 languages are under threat of disappearing,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}