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Cultures around the world at risk of losing their languages

Linguists predict that over half of the almost 7,000 languages spoken

in the world today will disappear by the end of the century. According

to Ethnologue, 473 languages currently are close to extinction. In the

Americas alone, 182 are endangered.

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