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These seven words can be summed up in a single word "chary" in the Tuvan language, according to a recent news article. Supposedly only 35 of the 426 Chulym people speak their native language.
The world's languages are disappearing at a pace faster than the extinction of biological species. And so what? Who cares about Tuvan anyway?
We all should. With the loss of language, we forever lose some amount of human knowledge, not to mention cultural diversity.
Sun's Globalization Group is not preserving world languages or preventing human knowledge from dying. That we leave to the academics. However, we are working towards making Sun's products available in a growing number of languages. Internationalization and Localization are an important part of our meeting Sun customer needs.
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For more information about this topic:
When Languages Die
The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge
by K. David Harrison
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