A fascinating article in this week’s Feature here proposes that the mobile phone industry supply phones using a lot more languages. People who study such things say there are 6000 languages left on Earth but they are dying off fast. Why not help to preserve languages by supplying phones to people who still speak them in remote places in Africa, Asia and elsewhere? It would not be an act of preservation charity thinks the article author. He says,
Catering content and services to the thousands of minority language communities languishing in now-stagnant markets may be the next major step the wireless industry needs to take in order to boost sales and revenue to the next level.
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