YouTube Is Saving Dying Languages

When no one speaks your language anymore, a massive online video website becomes a handy time capsule — but at what cost?

Raphael Tsavkko Garcia
FFWD
Published in
5 min readSep 13, 2019

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When a language dies, a culture ends. A unique way of thinking, understanding and seeing the world disappears. The death of a language can occur by a natural process, but it can also — and that’s often the…

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Raphael Tsavkko Garcia
FFWD
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Journalist, PhD in Human Rights (University of Deusto). MA in Communication Sciences, BA in International Relations. www.tsavkko.com.br