Over a quarter of languages are on the verge of extinction

Here is a thought.

According to a UNESCO report,nearly a third of the world's languages are at risk.Out of 6,700 defined languages nearly 2,500 have a chance of dying out

You can see this laid out on the interactive map provided by the UN agency.

199 languages have fewer than ten speakers and 178 others have 10 to 50. Among the languages that have recently become extinct, it mentions Manx (Isle of Man), which died out in 1974 when Ned Maddrell fell forever silent, Aasax (Tanzania), which disappeared in 1976, Ubykh (Turkey) in 1992 with the demise of Tevfik Esenc, and Eyak (Alaska, United States of America), in 2008 with the death of Marie Smith Jones.

Ht-the economist