Internet archive plan to save dying cultures

SOME of the world’s most endangered chants, poems and songs could soon be protected with the help of the internet, university experts said yesterday.

Folk stories and myths from hundreds of tribes across the world are being threatened by globalisation and rapid socio-economic change, according to linguists and anthropologists at Cambridge University.

Since January, they have been working to create a digital archive of vocal expressions from some of the most obscure cultures on the planet.