( CNN ) -- Will you be any worse off the moment humans cease to speak in Aragonese ? How about Navajo , or Ojibwa ? Or Koro , a language only just discovered in a tiny corner of northeast India ? No , you probably would n't , not in that moment . But humanity would be . Science , art and culture would be . If , as the phrase goes , another language equals another soul , then some 3,054 souls -- 50 % of the world 's total languages -- are set to die out by 2100 . Mashable.com : Kindle Espanol : Amazon launches Spanish-language ebook store . If there is hope , it lies in the world 's centers of information -- such as Google . The search giant 's philanthropic arm , Google.org , has launched the Endangered Language project , a website devoted to preserving those ancient tongues that are now only spoken by a few thousand of us . Mashable.com : How technology is speeding up humanitarian response . The site , launched early Thursday , features videos and an interactive map . The curious can click on any one of the dots that hang over each country ( including a suprising number in the U.S. ) , each representing a whole language . You can hear the heartbreaking , beautiful sound of Koro being sung , or read 18th-century manuscripts written in a nearly-dead Native American tongue . `` Documenting the 3,000+ languages that are on the verge of extinction is an important step in preserving cultural diversity , '' write project managers Clara Rivera Rodriguez and Jason Rissman . Mashable.com : 5 startups infusing social good with innovation . The idea is to unite a lot of smaller preservation efforts under the Google.org banner . `` By bridging independent efforts from around the world we hope to make an important advancement in confronting language endangerment , '' said Rodriguez and Rissman . `` We hope you 'll join us . '' Check out the project 's video on Mashable.com . © 2013 MASHABLE.com . All rights reserved .
Some 50 % of the world 's total languages will die out by the year 2100 . Google on Thursday launched a website dedicated to language preservation . The interactive website allows users to hear and ' read ' endangered languages . The smaller conservation efforts under Google may speed up progress .