/channels/news_feeds/all/term/threatened/rss en /channels/channels/news/borrowing-leaf-biology-preserve-threatened-languages-283334 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>One of the world’s 7,000 languages vanishes every other week, and half – including scores of indigenous North American languages -- might not survive the 21st century, experts say. To preserve as much linguistic diversity as possible in the face of this threat, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ scientists are proposing to borrow a leaf from conservation biology.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">13 </span><span class="month">December </span><span class="year">2017</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 13 Dec 2017 12:12:41 +0000 webfull 133563 at /channels