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Linguists hope to save endangered languages in India

UNESCO lists nearly 200 of India’s 900 languages as endangered. Others are dying fast as the county continues its rapid development. A team of researchers are working to catalog what’s left of them before they disappear completely.

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A Push to Support Language Diversity in India

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