Around the world, researchers are fighting a losing battle to save the world’s #linguistic #diversity. The most optimistic estimates suggest that half the estimated 5,000 #languages spoken today, from Siberia to the Australian Outback, Africa to the Amazon, could vanish by the end of the century.

https://rainforestjournalismfund.org/stories/race-extract-indigenous-language-its-last-lucid-speaker

#Deforestation #Degradation #Displacement #pollutioncrisis #ExtractiveEconomy