Read linguist K. David Harrison's article "The Tragedy of Dying Languages" at the BBC website (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8500108.stm).
- What challenges do native speakers, linguists, and linguistic anthropologists face in preserving or revitalizing languages that are at risk of being lost?
- Apart from possible preservation of a language, what impacts might revitalization projects have for the given linguistic community?
- Read over the selection of comments following the article. Write you own comment in reaction to the article and these comments.
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