A Disappearing Language...
Digital Presence
The Internet is the New Cultural Space
As conversations happen online, languages need digital presence to stay part of the global conversation.
Social Impact
Language Carries Social Power
Who gets seen, heard, and remembered often depends on whether their languages exist online.
Local Language Matters
These days, conversations happen online; language evolves through people’s interactions on online spaces.
What does it mean, when you do Google search, and you can barely find any information in your own language; when you use social media platforms (i.e., YouTube), and you can barely find any content in your language; when barely anyone, including native speakers, makes songs, talks, or shares stories in your language on the internet?
What does that do to a society, to a culture?
Because culture doesn't survive in silence. It survives in use, in visibility, in conversation, and in people’s interactions. Today, a lot of those are happening online.
But for many small or regional languages, there’s almost nothing out there.
This is the issue that I want to work on.
This is more than just about preserving a language.
It’s about preserving a different worldview, a different story, a different way of living in this world.
Losing a language means losing ways of thinking, understanding, and experiencing the world.
Local Language matters
Diving into the Numbers
Living languages in the world today
Yet nearly half are expected to disappear in this century if nothing changes
(UNESCO, 2024).
80% of online content is in less than 5 languages despite thousands of languages existing in the world.
(W3Techs n.d.)
%
Languages at risk of extinction
Nearly 40% of languages are at risk of disappearing, along with the cultures they are apart of.
(UNESCO, 2024)