Language is linked to memory, tradition, and ways of life, and language diversity is an important part of cultural diversity. It’s easy for English speakers to forget this, since our language is so widely spoken. Drawing attention to language diversity is especially urgent at a time of increasing globalization. There are over 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, and approximately 40% of them are endangered. Fewer than one hundred languages are commonly used in the digital world — making other languages all but invisible as more and more interactions take place online. But concrete efforts are being made to…