Google chips in to preserve endangered languages A newly
launched partnership between academic institutions and Google
aims to preserve endangered languages. There's a language known
as Aragones, spoken in northern Spain. If you don't recognize
it, that's understandable. The language has fewer than 10,000
native speakers. Aragones is one of thousands of endangered
languages worldwide. A newly launched partnership between
academic institutions and Google aims to preserve those
languages. "A language is endangered when it's not being passed
on to the next generation," says Antony Aristar. He directs the
Endangered Language Project and says as the world becomes more
connected, languages are getting left behind. "People typically
want their children to live modern lives and that means wealth,
and wealth means jobs. Jobs often require that you speak the
dominant language in the area, and that means that some parents
feel the best way to make sure the children actually have good
lives is to have them abandon their