Google Earth celebrates the Amazigh language as it celebrates indigenous languages around the world, and warns that more than a third of the world's languages are at risk of extinction - 2680 of the 7,000 languages spoken worldwide.
At the initiative's site, Google Earth showed a video of a Moroccan activist named Sanaa, dressed in red, sous Amazigh dressed with antique jewelery. "Amazigh is a language that we struggle every day to preserve, and we want to pass it on to our children," she said.
Google Earth shares more than 50 audio recordings of native speakers and adds that each speaker in one of the world's indigenous languages has a story about how sensitive it is to activate indigenous languages.
Google Earth emphasizes that this series of recordings touches only the surface of thousands of indigenous languages of the world, suggesting that those who want to contribute in their native languages to turn their attention to them.
In 2019, UNESCO launched the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYL), adding that it had set up a site to “contribute to raising awareness of the Year and the urgent need to preserve, revive and promote indigenous languages throughout the world.”
According to UNESCO, this International Year is an important mechanism of cooperation dedicated to raising awareness of a topic of global concern or interest, and mobilizing the various actors for coordinated action worldwide.
UNESCO recalled the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly in 2016 of a resolution proclaiming 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages, on the recommendation of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
The Forum stated that 40 per cent of the estimated 6,700 languages worldwide were in danger of disappearing, most of them “indigenous languages, putting their cultures and knowledge systems at risk”.
The same source stressed that indigenous peoples are often isolated politically and socially in their countries of residence, depending on the geographical location of their communities, their history, cultures, languages and separate traditions, although they are not only leaders in environmental protection, but their languages represent complex systems of knowledge and communication. Recognize it as a strategic national resource for development, peacebuilding and reconciliation.
The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues also noted that indigenous languages reinforce unique cultures, customs and local values that have lived for thousands of years and add “a rich fabric of global cultural diversity” because the world without them would be “a poorer place”.
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