Saving endangered languages from being forgotten
Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 02:21
in Paleontology & Archaeology
With only 3.000 speakers in Northwest Siberia the Ob-Ugrian language Mansi is on the verge of extinction. Predictions say it will be extinct in ten to twenty years at the latest. The same holds true for Khanti, a member of the same language family. It is for this reason that extensive documentation is so important.