The new definition is included in the latest edition of the Atlas of the World's Languages in danger, compiled by the United Nations group Unesco.
"With the rapid pace of globalization, corporate America has got the message that global growth requires talent with in-depth knowledge of the languages, customs and geography of other parts of the world, " she says.
Facebook, YouTube and even texting will be the salvation of many of the world's endangered languages, scientists believe.
And yet, by some estimates, Esperanto still has more speakers than six thousand of the languages spoken around the world today, including approximately a thousand native speakers (among them George Soros) who learned it as their first language.
Recognizing this unmet need for better understanding of outside cultures, Congress increased support for two federal programs, Title VI and Fulbright-Hays, which enable American universities to immerse students in the cultures and languages of friends and foes around the world.
The atlas is designed to highlight awareness of languages in danger around the world and was compiled by 30 linguists.
Following the ceremony, the Director-General was guided through the old and the renovated premises of the University, which contains the world's largest collection of children's books in different languages, dating back to before the Russian Revolution in 1918.
Bosnia and Herzegovina was granted funding for the translation of UNESCO and the World Anti-Doping Agency educational materials into the various languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina and their dissemination to young athletes, athlete support personnel and representatives of sports federations.
Harrison, who travels the world to seek out the last speakers of vanishing languages, has been describing his work here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
The 'Net is such a leveling factor, it will drive the world to a smaller number of languages, perhaps five to ten languages.
About a third of the world's languages (spoken in all kinds of physical environments) rely on absolute directions for space.
The show was seen in more than 100 countries and in over 20 languages and was watched by millions of kids around the world.
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If, as the phrase goes, another language equals another soul, then some 3, 054 souls -- 50% of the world's total languages -- are set to die out by 2100.
"Since its inception in 2006, Google has added 65 languages from areas extending across much of the world, though two exceptions stand out: Central Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, " she writes.
It was one of the Seven Wonders of the World and lasted 1, 500 years giving its name in many romance languages to the lighthouse.
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On a Facebook page dedicated to Michael Jackson, fans across the world left hundreds of messages in languages ranging from French and Spanish to Japanese and Hebrew.
Paulo Coelho, the bestselling author whose novel The Alchemist has been dubbed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most translated book by a living author (into a total of 53 languages), recently wrote an article strongly advocating for online peer-to-peer book sharing.
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Smartype, from KeyView, doesn't display custom buttons for World of Warcraft of alter the fonts you see for languages that don't use the Latin alphabet.
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Everybody around the world owns pieces of everything, regardless of borders, currencies, languages or timezones.
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Also, she advises intercultural weddings can seem more cohesive if an officiant and readers incorporate some native languages into the ceremony as a nod to family members who have traveled from another part of the world.
Instead, as linguists probed deeper into the world's languages (7, 000 or so, only a fraction of them analyzed), innumerable unpredictable differences emerged.
His books were already a success, but it was from a space age home he built near Colombo that the bulk of his work has been done - more than 60 titles of science fact and fiction, translated into more than 20 twenty languages around the world.
The world is covered with a patchwork quilt of a myriad of legal jurisdictions, languages and local practices.
It is with great pleasure that we now welcome 2013 with new original projects on Underwater Cultural Heritage, Holocaust Education and the 20 years of World Press Freedom Day, as well as translations into different languages of exciting titles.
In an analysis of 504 world languages, Dr. Atkinson found that, on average, dialects with the most phonemes are spoken in Africa, while those with the fewest phonemes are spoken in South America and on tropical islands in the Pacific.
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