"Save a language, Save a culture"

This article was pretty touching. The efforts of a man to establish a writing system and school for the indigenous people of the Hill Tracts in Bangladesh. The article itself has links to other websites like Omniglot.com and such. The whole thing started with a man, a nonfiction writer, discovering the epidemic facing writing systems of dying languages. His journey led him to a man who, by chance, originates from the Hill Tracts and is desperately trying to establish a system to preserve the native languages that seem to be pushed back by the majority power in the country. It looks like a long read and it includes more details than I can give, but it is an easy read and does not take up too much time.



This is a carving of the N'Ko script, a writing system in West Africa.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/06/130628-endangered-languages-scripts-bangladesh-indigenous-cultures-world/