Another cost of globalized development and the march of the consumer monoculture: bio-cultural diversity. A new report shows a direct link between disappearing habitats and the loss of languages. One in four of the worlds 7,000 spoken tongues is now at risk of falling silent for ever as the threat to cultural biodiversity grows … along with the languages, the traditional knowledge of these cultures is being forgotten. The names, uses, and preparation of medicines, the methods of farming, fishing and hunting are disappearing, not to mention the vast array of spiritual and religious beliefs and practices which are as diverse and numerous as the languages themselves.
Posted on: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:54:40 +0000
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