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- Today 457 or 9.2% of the living languages have fewer than 10 speakers and are very likely to die out soon, if no revitalization efforts are made. 639 of the languages known to have existed are already extinct – 10% of all languages.
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- Maeve Campbell
42% of modern languages are endangered today. One fifth of the world’s more than 7,000 languages will be dormant or dead by the end of the century, scientists warn. More than 40% of them are ...
Dec 16, 2021 · For a dataset containing 6,511 languages (over 90% of the world’s spoken languages), we analysed 51 predictor variables that target different aspects of language maintenance 15, including ...
Dec 17, 2021 · Around 1,500 endangered and rare languages are at a high risk of being lost in the next century, according to a study of thousands of spoken languages.
Dec 20, 2021 · More than 1,500 of the world’s endangered languages could be lost by the end of this century, according to a new study that has called for urgent investment in community-level documentation...
