Deliverable secrets

At the heart of this ambitious venture may lie the desperation of the clock ticking away,but the question of what exactly is lost every time a language dies trumps the question of why one endangered language dies while another gets a reprieve. Therefore,whether its Poitevin,spoken in central France,or Aka Koro on the site in Arunachal Pradesh,this is an angelic desperation. If it were not for Cmiique Iitom,spoken by the indigenous Seri in Mexico,for instance,several indispensable tools to mitigate the damage to the worlds biodiversity would never have been discovered. Every time a language dies,it takes with it a repository of knowledge medicinal,botanical,scientific,existential to say the least.

Globalisation and its accompanying disappearance of cultural boundaries has undoubtedly hastened the process of linguistic acculturation. However,this is also an easy blame to lay. Languages have been dying since they began to be spoken. And whatever the cause,at the end,theres usually the Lawrentian lament of The undeliverable secret,/ Dead with a dead race and a dead speech8230;. If Google muted that lament for its 3,054 languages,by putting information about them at one instantly accessible location,it would do a lot of good.