World loses one language every two weeks
One language disappears every two weeks in the world, informs the press service of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The information has been published in the world atlas of languages threatened with extinction for the first time.
The atlas contains information about more than 2.5 thousand languages. Its publication is dated for the international Mother Tongue Day celebrated on February 21.
People speak more than 6 thousand languages all over the world now. However, 96% of the languages are spoken by only 4% of the planet’s population. Almost half of the languages are threatened with extinction. Thousands of languages are not used in education systems and are not represented on the Internet.
BelTA
The atlas contains information about more than 2.5 thousand languages. Its publication is dated for the international Mother Tongue Day celebrated on February 21.
People speak more than 6 thousand languages all over the world now. However, 96% of the languages are spoken by only 4% of the planet’s population. Almost half of the languages are threatened with extinction. Thousands of languages are not used in education systems and are not represented on the Internet.
BelTA
