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Global Language Hotspots
In the 21st century our planet’s natural resources have become endangered. It is widely accepted that the biosphere—the sum total of the planet’s flora and fauna—is in great peril of collapsing as human populations make a massive impact on the natural world. But what is not widely known is that the human cultural “biosphere” —the sum total of all human cultures living on the planet today—is in even more peril.
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Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages
Minority languages are being increasingly replaced by various politically, economically, or socio-culturally dominant ones. Every two weeks the last fluent speaker of a language passes on and with him/her goes literally hundreds of generations of traditional knowledge encoded in these ancestral tongues. Nearly half of the world’s languages are likely to vanish in the next 100 years.
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Endangered Languages
The purpose of this site is to educate and disseminate information in the effort to reveal the problems associated with endangered languages.
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Ethnologue, Languages of the World
The Ethnologue database has been an active research project for more than fifty years. It is probably the most comprehensive listing of information about the currently known languages of the world. Thousands of linguists and other researchers all over the world rely on and have contributed to the Ethnologue database.
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Global Diversity Network
The BDLN´s founding principles are defined in the ‘Assling Accord’, which sets out a common goal of fulfilling the desire of our local and indigenous colleagues around the world to acquire and develop tools of research and teaching.
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Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources
Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources is a worldwide network of organizations, academics, activists, indigenous groups, and others representing indigenous and tribal peoples. We consist of a concerned group of social scientists, activists, scholars, laypeople, indigenous people, and others who all share a combined goal: to provide resources, news, articles, and information on current issues affecting indigenous and tribal peoples around the world.
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Terralingua
Terralingua works to sustain the biocultural diversity of life - the world's invaluable heritage of biological, cultural, and linguistic diversity - through an innovative program of research, education, policy-relevant work, and on-the-ground action.
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Intangible Cultural Heritage
The importance of intangible cultural heritage is not the cultural manifestation itself but rather the wealth of knowledge and skills that is transmitted through it from one generation to the next. The social and economic value of this transmission of knowledge is relevant for minority groups and for mainstream social groups within a State, and is as important for developing States as for developed ones.
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The Alaska Native Language Center
The Alaska Native Language Center is internationally known and recognized as the major center in the United States for the study of Eskimo and Northern Athabascan languages. The center houses an archival collection of more than 10,000 items, virtually everything written in or about Alaska Native languages, including copies of most of the earliest linguistic documentation, along with significant collections about related languages outside Alaska.
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ACCU
ACCU, in line with the UNESCO's principles, works closely with the people in the Asia-Pacific for effectively promoting regional cooperation and exchange programmes of innovative approaches in the fields of culture and education which would enhance mutual understanding to realise sustainable future.
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Aboriginal Resource and Development Services Inc
ARDS is an Indigenous capacity building organisation committed to stand with and empower the Yolngu people of north-east Arnhem Land. The Yolngu world view and language is central to our way of working.
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The Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning in Practice Project
The Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning in Practice Project is a major, national professional learning initiative to support languages education and aims to develop our collective understanding and work with intercultural language teaching and learning.
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