The Economist: Tongue tried

Jonathan Beckman, deputy editor of 1843 magazine, writes about his experience of learning the nearly extinct Ainu language via the Tribalingual platform – “an admirable project keeping endangered ones alive online.” The startup, founded by Inky Gibbens, seeks to save endangered languages from extinction by encouraging new people to learn them. Tribalingual is currently on the Accelerate Cambridge programme run by the Entrepreneurship Centre and previously was on the Cambridge Social Ventures programme run by the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation.

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