Striking fact: every 14 days, a language dies.
There are more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth and this rate more than half of those languages will be gone by 2100. National Geographic’s Enduring Languages project looks at the issue at length, including the regions that have created the languages —many of them not yet recorded—and the potential for them to disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment, and the human brain.
Read more and explore the interactive Languages Hot Spot map.
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