Climate crisis could extinguish half of the 7 languages ​​currently spoken

According to a report by The Guardian*, speakers of minority languages ​​have experienced a long history of persecution, which resulted in the extinction of half of all indigenous languages ​​in Australia, the United States, South Africa and Argentina by the 1920s. Now the climate crisis is being seen as the “final nail in the coffin” for many indigenous languages ​​and, with them, the knowledge they represent..

Vanuatu, is a good example. The South Pacific island nation is just over 12 km² and has 110 languages, one for every 111 square kilometers – the highest density of languages ​​on the planet! 😱 It is also one of the countries most at risk of rising sea levels.

Countries existing only in the metaverse? Is this the future that awaits us?

Little Tuvalu, an island located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, was the first nation to create an entire version of itself in the metaverse. The government decided to take this initiative due to the real threat of the group of islands disappearing if climate change causes a rise in sea levels.

According to the British newspaper, disasters – most of them climate-related – were responsible for 23,7 million internal displacements in 2021. In the last 10 years, Asia and the Pacific have been the regions most affected by displacement worldwide, especially the Pacific island countries, due to population size. However, it is precisely there that many indigenous languages ​​thrived.

Um map of the world's 577 critically endangered languages (🇬🇧) reveals clusters around equatorial Africa, the Pacific, and the Indian Ocean region. In response to the crisis, the UN launched the International Decade of Indigenous Languages to draw global attention to the critical situation of many languages ​​in danger of disappearing and the need to use and preserve them for future generations.

Read the full article on The Guardian*, it is worth it!

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Every 40 days, a language dies. If it's already bad, it's going to get worse, because this loss is being accentuated by the climate crisis, according to linguists. 🗣️

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