Fighting a global epidemic.

Publication: Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy

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Lyuba Parnyuk, a 22-year-old graduate student, and her colleagues at Tomsk State Pedagogical University in Siberia are fighting what is essentially a global epidemic: Linguists estimate that two thirds of the world's 6,500 languages will disappear this century as the increasingly global economy and culture promote a few dominant...

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