ANTH 0815 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Endangered Language
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The article talks about that there are many languages in the world face extinction. According to statistics, there were 6,909 languages in the world in 2009. However, almost half of the world"s population speaks only 10 languages: chinese, Therefore, only few languages of the world can be considered safe , many other languages will stop using by people and forget by people. The linguist estimates that half of world"s language may disappear in the next hundred years. The mainly reason of people stop using a language is the language is not popular anymore, and it"s hard to live if only based on this language. For example, most people speak english in the united states, you have right to speak another language but you can"t live well only base on this language. The reason is that most americans cannot understand this language.
