Mind your language! Save dying 100

Mind your language! Save dying 100 - HRD ministry plans rescue effort in schools & varsities

Telegraph India reports on the upcoming launch of a programme to "save over 100 Indian languages that are fast vanishing"

Various initiatives are mentioned - including

• The foundation of departments in universities, with the intent that these departments will set up libraries and museums
• The teaching of these languages at primary schools
• The preparation of  Roman and Devanagari instructional material for unwritten languages.

QI Column mentions last speakers

QI: QI goes off on one

A column of interesting facts about the number 1, contains an entry on last speakers.

The current last speakers of Yaghan and Kaixána are mentioned. The article also mentions the last native speaker of Cornish, prior to its revival

New language discovered in India

Explorers in India find something almost unheard of: a new language

The Independent reports that the Koro language was originally thought to be a dialect of Aka or Miji. In 2008 researchers realised that it was distinct.

The article closes with a list of facts about endangered and extinct languages.