[sphinx]

The best way to rescue very small indigeneous cultures from extinction through assimilation is to recruit academic anthropologists to go full native, live in the remote villages, scratch a living out of the ground with sticks, and die of pneumonia at 35 if tetanus or an infected tooth doesn't do them in first. For people willing to embrace this life, adoption and preservation of aboriginal languages is not a disadvantage.

This is necessary to provide willing cadres who value primitivism, to replace the original natives who move to the cities and assimilate in order to improve their standards of living.

If we run out of anthropoligists, perhaps we could recruit from the Occupy crowd. They are already fond of drum cicles and lack of hygiene, and might leap at the chance to separate from the modern consumer society that they so detest. This would be a win-win solution.

[tbw2]

One of the best ways to preserve a language is to document it, create literature in it and then teach the literature in it to keep the language alive.
The Wycliffe Bible Institute, translating the Bible in hundreds of rare languages, is a good example of this. They are even using software, local translators and crowd-sourcing for some of their latest translation projects.