/taxonomy/people/mark-turin en /research/news/cambridge-ideas-vanishing-voices <div class="field field-name-field-news-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="cam-scale-with-grid" src="/sites/default/files/styles/content-580x288/public/news/research/news/1072741.jpg?itok=dJCTKhFp" alt="" title="Credit: None" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p style="text-align: left;">Dr Mark Turin, director of the World Oral Literature Project, has spent much of his life travelling to remote corners of the Himalayas to study languages and cultures that are at risk and document them before they disappear without record.</p>&#13; <script id="dstb-id" language="javascript"> <!--//--><![CDATA[// ><!-- <!--//--><![CDATA[// ><!-- if(<span data-scaytid="4" data-scayt_word="typeof">typeof(<span data-scaytid="5" data-scayt_word="dstb">dstb)!= "undefined"){ <span data-scaytid="6" data-scayt_word="dstb">dstb();} //--><!]]]]><![CDATA[> //--><!]]> </script></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p>Of the world's 6,500 living languages, half will cease to be spoken by the end of this century.</p>&#13; <script id="dstb-id" language="javascript"> <!--//--><![CDATA[// ><!-- <!--//--><![CDATA[// ><!-- if(<span data-scaytid="1" data-scayt_word="typeof">typeof(<span data-scaytid="2" data-scayt_word="dstb">dstb)!= "undefined"){ <span data-scaytid="3" data-scayt_word="dstb">dstb();} //--><!]]]]><![CDATA[> //--><!]]> </script></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cc-attribute-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/"><img alt="" src="/sites/www.cam.ac.uk/files/80x15.png" style="width: 80px; height: 15px;" /></a></p>&#13; <p>This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Licence</a>. If you use this content on your site please link back to this page.</p>&#13; <script id="dstb-id" language="javascript"> <!--//--><![CDATA[// ><!-- <!--//--><![CDATA[// ><!-- if(<span data-scaytid="7" data-scayt_word="typeof">typeof(<span data-scaytid="8" data-scayt_word="dstb">dstb)!= "undefined"){ <span data-scaytid="9" data-scayt_word="dstb">dstb();} //--><!]]]]><![CDATA[> //--><!]]> </script></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-show-cc-text field-type-list-boolean field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Yes</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-sms-id field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">SMS id:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">1072741</div></div></div> Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:50:11 +0000 bjb42 26120 at