There are around 7,000 languages spoken in the world, but that number is shrinking. Unesco estimates that half could disappear by the end of the century. So how are languages lost, and what does that mean for the people who speak them?
There are around 7,000 languages spoken in the world, but that number is shrinking. Unesco estimates that half could disappear by the end of the century. So how are languages lost, and what does that mean for the people who speak them?
I don’t think I understand what you’re trying to get at, here. Are you implying that it’s not possible for people to speak more than one language?
Surely less languages means the chance of overlapping a language with someone else goes up?
Not really because there’s only a limited set of Lingua Francas and, say, Mali turning away from French in favour of e.g. English won’t make French disappear.