Report Shows Rise in World's Endangered Languages

• 6,000: Approximate number of total world languages
• 2,500: Approximate number of endangered languages
• 199: Number of languages with fewer than 10 speakers
• 178: Number of languages with between 10 and 50 speakers
• Over 200: Languages that have become extinct over the last 3 generations
• 26: Number of endangered languages in metropolitan France

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Sources: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

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