May 2012
Interdisciplinary researchers report that areas with high biological diversity, such as biodiversity hot spots and high biodiversity wilderness areas, are also home to about 70 percent of the world’s languages. The report, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, geographically links the endangered species to endangered languages.
“We looked at regions important for biodiversity conservation and measured their linguistic diversity in an effort to understand an important part of the human dimension of these regions,” said Professor Larry J. Gorenflo of Penn State University. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>