Indonesia Mourns the Loss of 11 Local Languages
11 indigenous languages in Indonesia declared extinct, highlighting the urgent need for efforts to preserve the country's linguistic diversity.
Tag: extinction
Event or process where an animal or plant species no longer exists alive in the world.
[Paper] The loss of biodiversity in Madagascar is contemporaneous with major demographic events
via Current Biology, 04 November 2022: A new paper by Alva et al. links a major loss of biodiversity in ...
[Paper] No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival
via PNAS, 18 May 2021: A new paper debunks the idea that the arrival of ancient humans caused mass extinctions ...
[Paper] Environmental drivers of megafauna and hominin extinction in Southeast Asia
via Nature, 07 October 2020: A study of ancient environments by Louys and Roberts showw how the expansion and contraction ...
The endangered tattoo tradition of Papua
via Detik, 16 December 2019: A series of articles (in Bahasa) highlighting the tattoo traditions found in Papua by different ...
Scholars to read Myanmar’s ancient script an endangered species
The expertise to translate the ancient languages of Myanmar, including Pyu, Mon, Rakhine and Pali, is becoming increasingly rare as ...
Readers of Cham script becoming extinct
The Cham script is falling in danger of becoming unreadable within a few decades as the mainly-Muslim Cham community in ...
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