Thursday, May 15, 2003
Verbal Extinction
Linguists estimate that there are 6,809 "living" languages in the world today, but 90 per cent of them are spoken by fewer than 100,000 people, and some languages are even rarer - 46 are known to have just one native speaker.-Independent
Pretty soon the only words left will be, "So long, and thanks for all the fish."
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