At first glance, you might think the internet is reducing language diversity. English and Chinese are dominant, with 80 per cent of online communication in just 10 languages.

With more and more people writing les emails and die Blogs, is there any hope for the less common indigenous languages? Of the world’s roughly 6500 languages, it’s estimated one goes extinct every two weeks. Most of them are never written down, let alone making it onto the internet

tags: indigenous languages, new technology, preserving language diversity