October 08, 2010
"Every two weeks, the last fluent speaker of a language dies"
Posted by Gordon Smith

So many are already gone, but researchers recently discovered "Koro" -- spoken in the foothills of the Himalayas -- which still has 800 or so speakers. Listen.

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