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"Universities of the country have been working on documenting endangered languages. Discussions were held on issues related to documentation, description and maintenance and endangered and lesser-known languages of India. According to the experts, over 40% of the world's approximately 7,000 languages are at risk of disappearing.The conference also saw the inauguration of the website of the Society for Endangered and Lesser-Known Languages, founded by Kavita Rastogi. "These include 20 Indo-Aryan languages, 30 Dravidian, 20 Austro-Asiatic, 110 Tibeto-Burman and 4 Andamanese languages," he added.The conference was held n collaboration with the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore. But this ignores another 180 or so lesser-known languages of the five language families," said B Ramakrishna Reddy, former dean of Telugu University, Hyderabad..