LINA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Indigenous Languages Of The Americas, Celtic Languages, Greenlandic Language
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As of wednesday january 9, 2019, there are 7091 languages spoken in the world. Of these only 23 are spoken widely across the globe. About 70% other languages have less than 100,000 speakers. About ~3,000 languages have less than 10000 speakers. ~500 languages of less than a hundred speakers. 24 indigenous languages in canada have enough speakers to survive of 60. 96% of today"s languages are spoken by 3% of people. Latin technically isn"t dead as we are still teaching it and it has offspring in the romance languages. Sanskrit, too, has language offspring in hindu, urdu, bengali and marathi. Manx a celtic language is dead as the last native speaker died in 1974. Most native american languages were killed by colonialism and war. Non standard language varieties are unsupported due to a lack of economic or educational resources. Assimilation wherein speakers choose to speak a language lesson favour of another.
