A map showing the languages ​​likely to be lost from the world

There are 6000 to 7,000 languages ​​in the world, 20 to 50% of which are predicted to disappear by losing the speaker until the beginning of the 22nd century. This is a map where you can see where such disappearing language is in the world.

Details are as below.
Enduring Voices Project, Endangered Languages ​​Facts, Photos, Map - National Geographic


For example, in North America "NORTHWEST PACIFIC PLATEAU" there were many indigenous languages ​​such as Chinook (Chinook), but most speakers abandon their mother tongues using English and now they can only speak old people.


In Latin America the word of medical staff Kallawaya since the Inca Empire has now reduced the number of speakers to less than 100 people. In the case of this language, the mystery is the history that a few people have been handed down by a few people until the 400 years since the annihilation of the Inca Empire.

There are cases in which the language which became a dead word like Hebrew language is restored by effort, but many will disappear as it is, so somehow it is okay to leave the record alone.

Language in danger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia