Music and magazines have been produced, as well as films, in an attempt to prevent the language's disappearance.
"There's disappearing species, flora and fauna, but the disappearance of language is a major crisis.
Unesco's director general, Koichiro Matsuura, said: "The death of a language leads to the disappearance of many forms of intangible cultural heritage, especially the invaluable heritage of traditions and oral expressions of the community that spoke it – from poems and legends to proverbs and jokes".
The ruins, the inhumanity, the gradual disappearance of language all create a sterile urban landscape which is the result of hundreds of years of civilization.
Its genus name, Leinkupal, means "vanishing family" in the region's indigenous Mapuche language - signifying the disappearance of this family of dinosaurs.
"We ought to spend less time worrying about the disappearance of languages," he writes, "and more time worrying about the disappearance of any credible alternative to unfettered capitalism".
The event this year will also be notable for the appearance of documentaries in competition with feature films, the virtual disappearance of Chinese-language movies from the lists and a burgeoning new category of restored classics.
We see the long-ago disappearance of ancient languages like Hittite and Phoenician as inevitable byproducts of the same.
Now a new emphasis on learning English in globalised India is adding to that trend, and the result is the disappearance of 220 Indian languages in the last 50 years, the highest rate of linguistic extinction in the world.
Tibet's exiled political leaders talk of the massive influx of Han Chinese to the towns and cities of the Tibetan Autonomous Region and other Tibetan areas of China; battling repressive security forces; schools that refuse to teach in the Tibetan language; and the arbitrary arrest and disappearances of monks and nuns.
