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Multilingual Cloud: saving Bangladesh’s endangered languagesCEFR A1
24 Aug 2025
Adapted from Nurunnaby Chowdhury, Global Voices • CC BY 3.0
Photo by litoon dev, Unsplash
Level A1 – BeginnerCEFR A1
2 min
61 words
- Many languages in Bangladesh are at risk.
- Some languages have very few speakers.
- One language is spoken by only a handful.
- The government started a digital project.
- The project saves words and audio files.
- A website keeps recordings and written words.
- People can learn simple phrases and sounds.
- The work helps teachers and families.
- Communities can try to keep languages alive.
Difficult words
- language — system of words people use to talklanguages
- speaker — a person who speaks a languagespeakers
- government — the group that leads a country
- digital — using computers or the internet
- project — planned work with a clear goal
- audio file — a computer file that has soundaudio files
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Discussion questions
- Do you speak more than one language?
- Would you like to learn simple phrases from another language?
- Can teachers help keep languages alive?
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