International Mother Language Day was first announced by UNESCO in 1999 to ‘promote the preservation and protection of all languages used by peoples of the world’. It has, since then, been observed every year on 21 February. For this occasion, we have created an infographic about endangered languages around the globe, with particular focus on Europe and the UK. All the data presented in the graphic comes from the UNESCO – if you would like to explore the topic in more detail, you can do so on their website. More.
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United States
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India
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United Kingdom
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remote, civilization-untouched (read internet-unpolluted) areas of Britain, the homeland of English
...about these "remote, civilization-untouched (read internet-unpolluted) areas of Britain" ???
India
Local time: 01:03
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remote, civilization-untouched (read internet-unpolluted) areas of Britain, the homeland of English
...about these "remote, civilization-untouched (read internet-unpolluted) areas of Britain" ???
In that case, mother-tongue English definitely needs to be put at the top of the list of languages going extint, provided it has not already gone dead, and cannot be revived!
United Kingdom
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...you seem to know so much about these places, I was hoping you could at least name them.
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Anyone remember how over the last century we were all told that English was the fastest growing language in the world by number of speakers,
number of words being added to the dictionary daily. Remember all those vocabulary building tests in grade school and high school? How often has anyone used the word "loquacious" in every day speech since then? Colloquial? How 'bout in everyday writing?
Anyone? Anyone? Ferris?
Germany
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Googling a bit I see that my language, Dutch, is considered in many lists as a weird language. In the Netherlands, there is also a co-official language in the province of Friesland, called 'Fries' or 'Frisian' in English. Frisian is spoken by 453,000 speakers wikipedia says. Would you say that is an endangered number?
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