Almost Half Of The World’s Languages Are Endangered

I have written several times about the tragedy of languages going extinct. We lose one language about every three months and when it is gone an entire idea base goes with it.

Now comes a report from the Long Now Foundation's Rosetta Project that half of the Earth's remaining languages are in danger of becoming extinct.  447 (almost 10%) are spoken by 10 or less and on the brink of extinction and 3176 are endangered.

What's worse is that it is possible that up to 90% of the world's languages will be dead by the year 2100.

Click here to go to an interactive map of threatened languages around the world.