2,500 languages threatened with extinction: UNESCO (fwd link)

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2,500 languages threatened with extinction: UNESCO

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PARIS (AFP) — The world has lost Manx in the Isle of Man, Ubykh in Turkey and
last year Alaska's last native speaker of Eyak, Marie Smith Jones, died, taking
the aboriginal language with her.

Of the 6,900 languages spoken in the world, some 2,500 are endangered, the UN's
cultural agency UNESCO said Thursday as it released its latest atlas of world
languages.

That represents a multi-fold increase from the last atlas compiled in 2001 which
listed 900 languages threatened with extinction.

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