Fading World

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the world has permanently lost more than 230 documented languages. Their speakers—small Indigenous communities—were assimilated or disappeared, along with their beliefs and traditions, as a result of disease, conflict, and the destruction of their ancestral lands. Their languages and cultures endured for thousands of years, only to be overwhelmed by globalization. Has there truly become no place left for them on our planet?