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Languages dying around the world

May 11th, 2010 by The JetSetter Team | Comments Off on Languages dying around the world

Here’s a side effect the international traveler may not have considered before. Languages are dying. Of approximately 7,000 languages spoken on this planet, 473 are classified as endangered. When the last known speaker of a language dies, the language does as well. For example… There are four known speakers of Lipon Apache in the U.S.; […]