What language is going extinct?

8 Endangered Languages That Could Soon Disappear

• Irish Gaelic. Irish Gaelic currently has over 40,000 estimated native speakers.
• Krymchak. Also spelled Krimchak and known as Judeo-Crimean Tatar, this language is spoken by people in Crimea, a peninsula of Ukraine.
• Okanagan-Colville.
• Ts’ixa.
• Ainu.
• Rapa Nui.
• Yagan.
• Saami.

What other languages are dead?

Recently extinct languages

Date	Language	Language family
11 July 2012	Upper Chinook	Chinookan
10 March 2012	Holikachuk	Na-Dene
ca. 2012	Dhungaloo	Pama-Nyungan
ca. 2012	Ngasa	Nilo-Saharan

How many languages are dying out?

Languages on the Edge of Extinction Today, the voices of more than 7,000 languages resound across our planet every moment, but about 2,900 or 41\% are endangered.

Will learning languages become obsolete?

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Will minority languages disappear?

Studying diverse languages gives us invaluable insights into human cognition. But language diversity is at risk. Linguists estimate that about 50 percent of the languages spoken today will disappear in the next 100 years. Some even argue that up to 90 percent of today’s languages will have disappeared by 2115.

Are human translators obsolete?

Instead, as the world’s economy has become more globally focused, demand for human translation has remained strong. And while tools like Google Translate help immensely to get the job done, they still cannot replace human translators. Indeed, many experts predicted that by now human translation would be obsolete.