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One language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear, as communities abandon native tongues in favor of English, Mandarin, or Spanish. What is lost when a language goes silent?
TUVA:
[ ezenggileer ]
to stirrup | to sing with the rhythms of a riding horse
The words used to describe styles of throat singing—an art among Tuvan herders—perfectly capture their distinctive sounds. Ezenggileer evokes the pulsing rhythms of galloping on a horse.
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