<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">An estimated 7,000 languages are being spoken around the world. But that number<br>is expected to shrink rapidly in the coming decades. What is lost when a<br>language dies?<br><br>In 1992 a prominent US linguist stunned the academic world by predicting that by<br>the year 2100, 90% of the world's languages would have ceased to exist.<br><br>Access full article at: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8311000/8311069.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8311000/8311069.stm</a></body></html>