UNESCO Launches the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022–2032)

With over 40% of the world’s estimated 7,000 languages at risk of disappearance, UNESCO’s International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022–2032) mobilizes linguists, governments, and AI researchers to preserve linguistic biodiversity.

The Global Action Plan of the Los Pinos Declaration

In February 2022, UNESCO officially inaugurated the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022–2032), proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly (Resolution A/RES/74/135). Guided by the Global Action Plan and the Los Pinos Declaration (‘Nothing for us without us’), the ten-year initiative addresses the urgent crisis facing human linguistic heritage: of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken globally today, UNESCO estimates that nearly half are endangered due to urbanization, lack of institutional schooling, and digital exclusion.

Digital Inclusion, Unicode Standardization, and Corpus Creation

A central pillar of the 2022–2032 Decade is digital empowerment. Language technologists, computational linguists, and the Unicode Consortium’s Script Encoding Initiative are collaborating with indigenous communities to encode scripts, build predictive mobile keyboards, record oral audio archives, and develop open-source bilingual corpora. Preserving low-resource languages ensures that public health information, legal rights, and educational materials remain accessible to indigenous speakers worldwide.

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Source: https://www.unesco.org/en/decades/indigenous-languages