Paper on Endangered Language Families by Whalen and Simons

[Dave Pearson]

Here's a quote from Endangered Language Families
<http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/language/v088/8
8.1.whalen.pdf>  by Whalen and Simons: "Since [1950] 15% of the world's
linguistic stocks have become extinct and another 27% are now moribund in
that direct estimates of endangerment indicate that no member languages are
being learned by children." The Americas region has been most significantly
impacted by the loss of language families, followed by the Pacific, Asia,
Africa and Europe.

 

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