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PostSubject: Study links biodiversity and language loss   Study links biodiversity and language loss Icon_minitimeSat May 12, 2012 10:03 pm

The decline of linguistic and cultural diversity is linked to the loss of biodiversity, a study has suggested.

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The authors said that 70% of the world's languages were found within the planet's biodiversity hotspots.

Data showed that as these important environmental areas were degraded over time, cultures and languages in the area were also being lost.

The results of the study have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

"Biologists estimate annual loss of species at 1,000 times or more greater than historic rates, and linguists predict that 50-90% of the world's languages will disappear by the end of the century," the researchers wrote.

Lead author Larry Gorenflo from Penn State University, in the US, said previous studies had identified a geographical connection between the two, but did not offer the level of detail required.

Dr Gorenflo told BBC News that the limitation to the data was that either the languages were listed by country or there was a dot on the map to indicate the location.

"But what you did not know was if the area extended two kilometres or 200 kilometres, so you really did not get a sense of the extent of the language," he explained.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18020636#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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