Languages at verge of extinction: UNESCO (fwd link)

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Languages at verge of extinction: UNESCO
 	 	
ISLAMABAD, Mar 15 (APP): Around 27 languages spoken in Northern Areas,
Kashmir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and surrounding border areas of Pakistan
are facing extinction, said a UNESCO report.The report revealed that
language is the source of communication, education and progress and
their extinction discontinue the transfer of social values to the
coming generation and eventually the language are declared as dead
languages.In Pakistan, Punjabi has the highest number of speakers
which are 48 percent of the total population. However, Sindhi language
is spoken by 12  per cent, Pashto and Urdu 8  per cent, Balochi 3  per
cent, Hindko 2 per cent and Barohi 1 per cent.

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