"the tongues least spoken still have much to say"

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/07/vanishing-languages/rymer-text

Vanishing Voices

One language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear, as communities abandon native tongues in favor of English, Mandarin, or Spanish. What is lost when a language goes silent?

By Russ Rymer

Photograph by Lynn Johnson

"To be involved in the plight of vanishing languages, even just as a journalist, is to contemplate the fragility of tribal life. "