Sentence examples for threatened languages from inspiring English sources

The foundation will work to improve water supplies and provide better access to health care in poor countries, fight against deforestation and desertification, and save threatened languages and cultures.

The book also takes a stand against language extinction: The authors are donating all profits to the Endangered Language Fund, which works to preserve threatened languages.

Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages by Mark Abley Heinemann £14.99, pp322 We are losing our languages.

The effort to identify "hot spots of threatened languages," the linguists said, is critical in making decisions to preserve and enlarge the use of such tongues, which are repositories of a people's history and culture.

Mark Abley's SPOKEN HERE: Travels Among Threatened Languages (Houghton Mifflin, $25) covers the extinction of languages, with case studies in Aboriginal and Amerindian tongues, Manx, Provençal, Yiddish and Welsh that are gracefully written, funny and frequently heartbreaking.

As well as hunting for poems in at-risk languages, the National Poetry Library has commissioned four poets to write new poems in threatened languages, or languages lost to them personally.

They hoped Canadians would understand their desire to protect a threatened language and culture, and refrain from interfering in internal Mohawk affairs.

In his view, the efforts of the French to purge their tongue of English words arise in part from a "dented self-image," even though French is hardly a threatened language.

Richardson has denied any knowledge of a threatening phone call saying: 'I did not use threatening language against Douglas.

The dialogue is steeped in threatening language and violent imagery.

The latest note again contained threatening language but not target-specific language, a knowledgeable official emphasized.