Laetitia Chanèac-Knight and Alissa Stern outline their plan to preserve Balinese with the help of modern technology

Scientists agree that it is vital to preserve species to keep our ecosystems intact, to provide answers to human health and other questions and to sustain the life of our planet. But what about languages? A language represents a particular view of the world, centuries of unique traditions, and a particular understanding of the environment and how to live with it in harmony. Yet languages, like species, evolve in response to a set of internal and external factors.









