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A language spoken by one person in the world “Get to know about 6 languages that are threatened with extinction”
A language spoken by one person in the world “Get to know about 6 languages that are threatened with extinction”
Break Team
Tuesday, 22 February 2022 | 5:49 PM
A recent study revealed the most prominent endangered languages around the world, and this comes due to the small number of people who use them in their speech as a result of wars, genocide campaigns, natural disasters or political reasons that are a factor in their disappearance.
We list the six languages in danger of extinction
1- Sami language
It is a Nordic language and it consists of several languages and is used by about 25,000 to 30,000 people in the world from the northern regions such as Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.2- Shwa language
This language is also classified as one of the most endangered languages because it is spoken by only 200 people in Mabe village, only adults use it and children use Setsuna or English.
3- Kremchak language
This is the official language of the sub- Crimean people of the Ukraine peninsula, and it is one of the languages that are at risk of disappearance, as there are only about 200 people who speak this language now, and they are people who were born during the 1930s or before.
4- Okanagan Colville
It is one of the rarest languages and is used by the inhabitants of the countries of the Columbia River Basin, and it is spoken by 150 people, and although it is on the verge of extinction, the Catalog of Endangered Languages has succeeded in preserving the language areas through many resources, including videos.
5- The language of the narrator
This language is used in the province of Morobi, and is considered the language of Papua, and was used mainly at the beginning of the twentieth century, but this language is currently used by only one person.
6- Rapa Nui language
It is the language of the inhabitants of Easter Island, a volcanic island in Polynesia, and there are only about 3,400 people who speak this language.
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