An international software company that specialises in writing smartphone keyboards in traditional languages is helping people protect their language.
The project, called Keyman, allows people to enter one of more than 600 different languages, most of which are in most languages.
Most languages are a language spoken by a large group of people, such as English, Spanish or Mandarin.
Keyman was developed by SIL International, a non-profit company, and chief software developer Marc Durdin said it was originally created in Laos in 1993.