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Linguists estimate that of the world’s approximately 6,900 languages, more than half are at risk of dying out by the end of the 21st century. Sometimes languages die out quickly. This can happen when small communities of speakers are wiped out by disasters or war.
- Noah Tesch
Nov 5, 2014 · There are some 6,000 languages now. But no one knows how many languages have come and gone within this period, and how many new languages to allow for, to set off against the apparent loss of some 6,000.
- David Crystal
- 2000
In linguistics, language death occurs when a language loses its last native speaker. By extension, language extinction is when the language is no longer known, including by second-language speakers, when it becomes known as an extinct language.
Dec 10, 2015 · Languages are dying every year. Often a language’s death is recorded when the last known speaker dies, and about 35 percent of languages in the world are currently losing speakers or are more...
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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.
Jun 5, 2012 · Language death occurs in unstable bilingual or multilingual speech communities as a result of language shift from a regressive minority language to a dominant majority language. Language shift typically involves a gradual transition from unstable bilingualism to monolingualism, that is the loss or ‘death’ of the recessive language.
Apr 8, 2020 · Language Death. "Every 14 days a language dies. By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth — many of them not yet recorded — may disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment, and the human brain."
