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Loss of Indigenous Languages and Revitalization Efforts
Of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, about 40–43% are endangered, and at current trends, up to 90% could disappear by the end of this century. In fact, experts estimate that a language disappears somewhere in the world roughly every two weeks. When a Language Disappears There are languages in the world today spoken by only a handful of people. In some cases, the remaining speakers are elderly. In others, the language survives only in archival recordings,
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