The Atlas Itself — Mapping the World’s Living Languages

The view from the atlas itself: UNESCO’s new World Atlas of Languages, the UN Decade of Indigenous Languages kick-offs, and the explainer films asking why around half of the 7,000 tongues alive today could fall silent by 2100.

Playlist by @living_tongues_atlas

20 tracks, shared on Audicious.

  1. Launch of UNESCO's World Atlas of Languages — UNESCO
  2. Langfiles Ep. 29: The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger — Śeid
  3. Presentation of the new UNESCO Atlas of World Languages — UN Etxea - Asociación del País Vasco para la UNESCO
  4. Why do languages die? — The Economist
  5. What does the world lose when a language dies? — PBS NewsHour
  6. Documentary explores loss of languages around the globe — PBS NewsHour
  7. Dying Languages | National Geographic — National Geographic
  8. The Last Speakers (National Geographic) — Nat Geo Books
  9. Languages Matter! — UNESCO
  10. The UN International Decade of Indigenous Languages begins in 2022 — CBC News
  11. Join the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032! (4 min.) — UNESCO
  12. UNESCO World Atlas of Languages — International Decade Indigenous Languages
  13. Saving Languages From Extinction — Great Big Story
  14. Languages Are Dying: Here’s Why We Should Be Worried — Aperture
  15. Endangered: Why are so many languages dying? | The Stream — Al Jazeera English
  16. How languages evolve - Alex Gendler — TED-Ed
  17. Hidden Language Revealed | National Geographic — National Geographic
  18. When We First Talked — PBS Eons
  19. UNESCO - World Atlas of Languages — O2 Designs - Video Production Agency
  20. Linguistic Diversity : An International Mother Language Day Documentary — Sayem Shahid