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How the Internet is killing the world’s languages
Less than five percent of current world languages are in use online, according to a recent study by prominent linguist András Kornai - and the Internet may be helping the other 95 percent to their graves. Those startling conclusions come from a paper published in the journal PLOSOne in October titled, appropriately, “Digital Language Death.” The study sought to answer a question that’s both inherently fascinating and little-discussed: How many languages exist online?
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