Will mobile phones save human language diversity?

According to the wall street journal, companies that develop predictive text say they have created cellphone software for fewer than 80 of the world's 6,912 languages..." according to the article, "linguists fear half the world’s languages will disappear in the near future, thinks at least 200 languages have enough speakers to justify development of cellphone text systems..."
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