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LANGUAGES

🌑 When the Last Speaker Goes Quiet, a Whole World Fades!

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MANY VOICES
~7,000 Languages
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FEWER SPEAKERS
Young Switch Away
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LAST SPEAKER
One Voice Left
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SILENCE
A Language Dies
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REVIVAL
People Fight Back
🌑 DYING LANGUAGES
TOPIC 03 · LANGUAGES · ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE
PAGE 1 OF 5 — A VOICE FALLS SILENT
THE LAST SPEAKER
Dying Languages comic panel: the last speaker, when one voice is left
WHEN ONE VOICE IS LEFT
Imagine being the only person left on Earth who can speak your language. There is no one to talk to, no one to share a joke or a song with in your own words. This really happens. When a language has just one speaker left, and that elder passes away, the language goes quiet forever. Experts say that about every two weeks, somewhere in the world, a language loses its very last speaker.
⚡ DID YOU KNOW?
There are around 7,000 languages spoken today, but experts warn that over 3,000 of them could disappear by the end of this century.
SILENCE
7,000 VOICES
Dying Languages comic panel showing 7,000 voices
🗣️ About 7,000 languages today
🌍 Spoken across every continent
FADING FAST
Dying Languages comic panel showing fading fast
⏳ One is lost every two weeks
📉 Nearly half may vanish soon
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