Sentence examples for disappearing language from inspiring English sources

The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Friday April 20 2007 The map attached of disappearing language courses in universities showed Middlesex University no longer offering single-honours German.

This disappearing language is what's known as a "warrant canary," a sort of one-time warning that yes, the feds are playing hardball.

The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Thursday March 15 2007 The map attached showing disappearing language courses in universities mistakenly listed three courses that had been stopped at Paisley University.

"That includes a lot of endangered, disappearing languages.

On the other side there are multitudinous, disparate, sometimes disappearing, languages with whose vocabularies a sense can be made of life even if, particularly if, that sense is tragic.

For all of these reasons, linguists are scrambling to document and archive the diversity of quickly disappearing languages.

Just as disappearing forests take with them secrets of undiscovered medicines, disappearing languages can take the key to a longer and better quality of life.

For Professor Kaufman, the quest for speakers of disappearing languages has sometimes involved serendipity.

Three-quarters of universities have axed some language courses over the past three years, with "disappearing languages" including French, Italian, Dutch, Swedish and Arabic.

Its database used three major sources to collate the information about the disappearing languages, including Unesco's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Machine translation systems have been developed for roughly 100 of the world's 7,000 languages, says Tolle. "There is a lot of truth to what Microsoft is saying," says Greg Anderson, director of nonprofit Living Tongues, which documents, researches, and tries to support disappearing languages.