According to Unesco, half the world's 6,000 languages face being wiped out by the end of the century, including 150 from Europe.
The question of why one language expands and diversifies at the expense of its neighbours was particularly acute at the beginning of the 21st century, when a few world languages (notably English, Spanish, and Chinese) were rapidly acquiring new speakers, while half of the world's known languages faced extinction.
The United Nations keeps an atlas of languages facing extinction, and U.N. experts as well as linguists generally agree that a language will probably disappear in a generation or two when the population of native speakers is both too small and in decline.
The isolated people who once preserved traditional knowledge of Amazonian plants as well as a rich diversity of cultures and languages face new threats.
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International Mother Language Day is celebrated just once per year, but languages face extinction every single day.
Languages facing active campaigns against them will require different interventions than those that are declining simply due to the forces of modernization and globalization.
The temporal cortex is located in the lower right and left regions of the brain, and is involved in hearing, understanding languages, face recognition, and certain memory functions [ 34].
However, the detour through language faces significant challenges.
"Everyone sensible has accepted that the language faces a crisis, but the government still isn't doing anything.
