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DateLanguageLanguage FamilyRegionby 2024West Papua, Indonesiaby 2024West Papua, Indonesiaby 2024Maluku, Indonesia2 May 2023Washington (state), United StatesJan 5, 2022 · There are 7,000 documented languages currently spoken across the world, but half of them could be endangered, according to a new study. It is predicted that 1,500 known languages may no longer be spoken by the end of this century.
Jun 24, 2022 · Different estimates have been provided: a more extreme prediction is that 50% of the world’s languages are endangered and that as many as 90% of the world’s languages can become moribund or...
Feb 17, 2022 · As UNESCO prepares to celebrate International Mother Language Day 2022 on February 21, data from the Endangered Languages Project analyzed by Statista reveals that thousands of languages from...
Dec 16, 2021 · As with global biodiversity, the world’s language diversity is under threat. Of the approximately 7,000 documented languages, nearly half are considered endangered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. In ...
Mar 2, 2022 · A comprehensive study warns that 1,500 endangered languages could no longer be spoken by the end of this century. Published in Nature Ecology and Evolution (www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01604-y), the study, led by the Australian National University (ANU), charts the widest range of factors ever putting endangered languages under pressure ...
