1.Ms. Welcher, who says 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.
韦尔奇说,语言学家担心,在不远的将来,全世界有一半的语言将会消失。她认为,至少有200种语言拥有足够的受众,值得我们为之专门开发手机文本系统。