A Culture Dies When a Language Dies

       Reminded of one thing today I had heard of and apprized of another I hadn't. 

       There is a Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages.  The attempt is to save disappearing tongues before they die.  For example, when speakers of 27 Native American languages were forced into one reservation in Oregon in 1885, they developed a "cross-over" language out of necessity that allowed them to speak to one another; only one of the 27 original languages has a living speaker.   The institute has made a talking dictionary of that last language.  You can find the Institute here. 

       There's also a website in which speakers of minority languages can send tweets to one another, such as in Gaelic, yes Yiddish, a host of Native American languages, many others.  The site can be  reached at this location.