There are even some languages in which only one living person speaks it and it will probably disappear when that person dies. Linguists around the world try to write and record those languages so if they do go extinct, they will not be totally lost to the world. Many of those languages will probably go extinct in the next few decades unless more people learn the language. About 500 languages are on the edge of extinction with only a small number of people still speaking them. ![]() There are about 7,000 living languages in the world! In fact, it’s estimated that about half the world’s languages have fewer than 3,000 people who speak them. ![]() ![]()
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