Countries With the Most Languages Spoken (2025)

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There are approximately 7,168 living languages spoken on Earth today, according to Ethnologue's 2024 catalogue — the most comprehensive academic database of the world's languages, published by SIL International. These languages are not spread evenly across the globe. A small number of countries account for a wildly disproportionate share of human linguistic diversity: the top 10 most linguistically diverse countries together host over 3,700 distinct languages, meaning fewer than 10 countries contain more than half of all human languages. Papua New Guinea alone — a country smaller than Texas — holds over 11% of all languages on Earth. Here is what the data shows, why it looks this way, and what is being lost as smaller languages disappear.
Methodology: what counts as a language?
The primary source for this ranking is the Ethnologue database, published by SIL International. Ethnologue is the most comprehensive catalogue of documented languages, covering approximately 7,168 living languages as of its 27th edition (2024). SIL defines a "living language" as one with at least one known native speaker still alive.
The conceptual challenge in any language count is the language-dialect distinction — where does one language end and another begin? The linguist Max Weinreich's observation that "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy" captures the political nature of this distinction. Mandarin and Cantonese are mutually unintelligible (a speaker of one cannot understand the other) yet counted as a single Chinese language. Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish are mutually intelligible to a significant degree yet counted as three separate languages. These political decisions affect national totals significantly.
For this ranking, Ethnologue's classifications are used as the primary reference, supplemented by notes where the language-versus-dialect question materially affects how a country places in the table.
Source: Eberhard, D.M., Simons, G.F., & Fennig, C.D. (Eds.). (2024). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (27th ed.). SIL International. https://www.ethnologue.com
Additional data from the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger informs the sections on endangerment.
Source: UNESCO, Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (3rd ed.). https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000187026
Top 15 countries by number of languages spoken (2025)
| Rank | Country | Languages Spoken | Population | Languages per Million People |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Papua New Guinea | 840 | 10,300,000 | 81.6 |
| 2 | Indonesia | 710 | 277,500,000 | 2.6 |
| 3 | Nigeria | 524 | 222,000,000 | 2.4 |
| 4 | India | 454 | 1,428,628,000 | 0.3 |
| 5 | Cameroon | 280 | 28,500,000 | 9.8 |
| 6 | China | 297 | 1,425,671,000 | 0.2 |
| 7 | Mexico | 289 | 128,500,000 | 2.2 |
| 8 | Australia | 250+ | 26,500,000 | 9.4 |
| 9 | DRC (Congo) | 215 | 99,000,000 | 2.2 |
| 10 | Brazil | 228 | 215,300,000 | 1.1 |
| 11 | USA | 430* | 335,000,000 | 1.3 |
| 12 | Philippines | 186 | 114,100,000 | 1.6 |
| 13 | Tanzania | 127 | 65,500,000 | 1.9 |
| 14 | Nepal | 123 | 30,000,000 | 4.1 |
| 15 | Vanuatu | 113 | 330,000 | 342.4 |
*USA figure includes indigenous languages and all documented immigrant languages; sources vary in counting methodology.
Source: Ethnologue (SIL International, 2024), UNESCO Atlas of World's Languages in Danger (3rd ed.).
Where this data comes from
Language counts come primarily from the Ethnologue database, published by SIL International, which is the most comprehensive and widely cited catalogue of the world's languages. Ethnologue's 27th edition (2024) lists 7,168 living languages. Endangered language data comes from UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. A critical limitation: the language-versus-dialect distinction is partly political rather than purely linguistic, meaning different sources sometimes classify the same variety differently. China's classification of Cantonese as a "dialect" and India's inconsistent counting of Dravidian languages versus north Indian languages reflect political decisions. The USA's high count (430+) reflects inclusion of immigrant and heritage languages; other countries count only national or widely-spoken languages.
Why does linguistic diversity exist at all?
Before examining individual countries, it is worth asking the foundational question: why are there 7,000 languages? Why didn't human language converge toward a single system, or a small number of systems, the way technology tends to?
The answer is geographic and temporal isolation. Languages diverge when communities are separated from each other long enough that separate innovations accumulate — in sound systems, vocabulary, and grammar — until the varieties are no longer mutually intelligible. This process, called linguistic drift, is analogous to biological speciation: two populations of the same species separated by a geographic barrier will eventually evolve into two distinct species because mutations accumulate independently. Languages, similarly, drift apart when communities lose contact.
The rate of drift is related to the degree of contact: communities that trade regularly, intermarry, or share religious practice have linguistic contact that slows divergence. Communities that are physically isolated — by mountains, rivers, ocean channels, or dense forest — accumulate changes faster and produce more linguistic diversity per unit of time. This is why the world's most linguistically diverse places are overwhelmingly geographic environments that isolated communities from each other: mountainous tropical islands (Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Vanuatu), dense rainforests (Amazonia, the Congo Basin), and complex island archipelagos (Indonesia).
An analogy: think of language evolution like the growth of branches on a tree. If you keep the branches in contact, they grow intertwined and similar. Separate a branch from the trunk and it grows in its own direction. The linguistic diversity of Papua New Guinea represents 50,000 years of branches growing in near-complete isolation across a landscape of mountain ranges and jungle valleys that made even neighbouring communities strangers to each other.
Source: Nettle, D. (1999). Linguistic Diversity. Oxford University Press.
Historical context: how linguistic diversity formed over millennia
The world's current linguistic map is the product of at least 100,000 years of human migration, separation, and occasional reconnection.
The first modern humans left Africa approximately 60,000–70,000 years ago in what geneticists and archaeologists call the Out-of-Africa expansion. As populations spread across Asia, Europe, Australia, and eventually the Americas, they separated into increasingly isolated communities. Each community's language continued to drift. The further in time and space from the original migration, the more divergent the language.
The result is that the oldest continuously inhabited regions of the world — Africa and Australia — have some of the highest linguistic diversity. Africa has approximately 2,000 languages (roughly 30% of all languages, for 17% of global population) distributed across five major language families and several isolates. Australia's Aboriginal languages, before European contact, represented up to 350 distinct languages developed over 50,000+ years of habitation — the longest continuous human occupation of any continent outside Africa.
The Bantu expansion is perhaps the most consequential linguistic event in African prehistory. Beginning approximately 3,000–4,000 years ago, agricultural communities speaking proto-Bantu languages expanded out of the Cameroon-Nigeria border region southward and eastward across central and southern Africa. Bantu-speaking farmers, who had iron tools and practiced agriculture, spread their languages across a territory that hunter-gatherer populations had occupied for much longer. Today, approximately 500 Bantu languages are spoken across a huge area from Cameroon to South Africa, having replaced the original linguistic diversity of much of sub-Saharan Africa in the process.
The Americas present a different history. Human populations arrived in the Americas approximately 15,000–25,000 years ago (most likely multiple waves) and developed over 1,000 distinct languages across North, Central, and South America before European contact. The European conquests of the 15th–19th centuries were catastrophic for this diversity: population collapse from introduced disease (reducing indigenous populations by an estimated 50–90% in the century after contact) and deliberate suppression of indigenous languages by colonial and religious authorities destroyed hundreds of languages, sometimes in a single generation.
Source: Lupyan, G. & Dale, R. (2010). "Language Structure Is Partly Determined by Social Structure." PLOS ONE, 5(1), e8559.
Papua New Guinea: the world's linguistic colossus
Papua New Guinea's 840 languages represent over 11% of all languages on Earth in a country of just 10 million people — the highest absolute count and the highest linguistic density of any large country.
The geography explains the density. New Guinea's interior is dominated by a central mountain range reaching over 4,500 metres (14,800 feet), with deeply incised river valleys running off the central spine. These valleys created hundreds of separate micro-environments, each with its own community. A community in one valley could be completely cut off from the community in the next valley by ridges requiring days of travel through dense jungle. Over thousands of years, each community's language drifted independently.
The linguistic situation is genuinely extraordinary by any global standard. Many PNG languages belong to Papuan language families — a catch-all term for the hundreds of languages in New Guinea that are not demonstrably related to each other or to any other language family in the world. This structural non-relatedness suggests that New Guinea was settled in multiple, separate waves of migration going back 50,000+ years, each wave arriving and establishing communities that then evolved in near-complete isolation.
In practice, this means a traveller could walk from one village to the next in Papua New Guinea and encounter a completely unintelligible language — not a dialect variant, but a language as different from the previous one as English is from Japanese. PNG communities traditionally numbered in the hundreds of people; many PNG languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers.
Tok Pisin — the national lingua franca — is itself a remarkable linguistic object. An English-based creole that emerged from 19th-century plantation contact between English-speaking colonisers and Papua New Guinean workers speaking mutually unintelligible languages, Tok Pisin has evolved into a genuine language with its own grammar, phonology, and expanding vocabulary. "Gras bilong fes" (grass belonging face) means beard. "Gras bilong pisin" (grass belonging bird) means feather. It now has native speakers — children who grew up speaking Tok Pisin as their first language — and is used in parliament, media, and schools.
Source: Foley, W.A. (1986). The Papuan Languages of New Guinea. Cambridge University Press.
Indonesia: unity in diversity
Indonesia's 710 languages span over 17,000 islands in an archipelago stretching more than 5,100 km from west to east — roughly the distance from London to New York.
The range is extraordinary. Javanese has approximately 82 million speakers and a rich literary tradition extending back to the 9th century CE, with elaborate social registers (three distinct forms of the language used to address social superiors, peers, and inferiors respectively). Balinese encodes social hierarchy in its grammar even more elaborately than Javanese. At the other end of the spectrum, isolated Papuan languages on eastern Indonesian islands of West Papua may have only a few hundred speakers.
Bahasa Indonesia, the national language, was a deliberate political creation — one of the most successful nation-building linguistic decisions in modern history. Rather than imposing Javanese (the most widely spoken indigenous language, and the language of the dominant ethnic group), Indonesia's founding generation at the 1928 Youth Pledge chose a standardised form of Malay as the national language. Malay was already a trade language used across the archipelago, was not the native language of any dominant ethnic group, and thus carried no ethnic favouritism.
The decision worked. A Javanese teenager, an Ambonese fisherman, and a Dayak farmer from Borneo could all learn Bahasa Indonesia as a second language (from their mother tongue) and communicate with each other without either feeling culturally subordinated to the other. Indonesia's 710 distinct language communities have maintained a national unity that the country's extreme diversity might otherwise have made impossible.
Source: Sneddon, J. (2003). The Indonesian Language: Its History and Role in Modern Society. UNSW Press.
Nigeria and Cameroon: Africa's linguistic heartlands
Sub-Saharan Africa contains the world's highest density of distinct language families, and the Niger-Congo belt — running from West Africa through the Congo Basin and east to Tanzania — is the most linguistically diverse continuous territory on Earth.
Nigeria (524 languages) has three languages that serve as regional lingua francas: Hausa in the north (50+ million speakers; one of the most widely spoken languages in Africa, used as a trade language across the Sahel), Yoruba in the southwest (45+ million speakers; with a rich literary, religious, and musical tradition), and Igbo in the southeast (30+ million speakers; the linguistic basis of the Biafra region that sought independence in the Nigerian Civil War). These three languages together have over 125 million speakers. The remaining 520+ languages range from regionally significant languages with millions of speakers to isolated communities with fewer than 10,000 speakers.
Cameroon (280 languages, 9.8 per million population) is often called "Africa in miniature" for its extraordinary concentration of ecological zones, cultural groups, and linguistic diversity. The country's Adamawa highlands are widely accepted in historical linguistics as the homeland of the Bantu languages — the great family of approximately 500 languages that spread across central and southern Africa over the past 3,000–4,000 years. The Bantu expansion out of the Cameroon-Nigeria region is one of the most consequential events in African linguistic history, responsible for the current linguistic landscape of the entire southern third of the continent.
Cameroon also sits at the junction of three major African language families: the Niger-Congo family (to which Bantu languages belong), the Afro-Asiatic family (which includes Hausa, Arabic, and Hebrew, and is prominent in northern Cameroon), and the Nilo-Saharan family. This convergence at a single national territory makes Cameroon uniquely significant in African linguistics.
Source: Williamson, K. & Blench, R. (2000). "Niger-Congo." In B. Heine & D. Nurse (Eds.), African Languages: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press.
The endangered languages crisis
Of the 7,168 languages currently alive, approximately 3,000 are classified as endangered by Ethnologue — meaning they have fewer than 1,000 active speakers, are not being regularly transmitted to children, or both. UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger tracks roughly 2,500 languages as vulnerable, definitely endangered, severely endangered, critically endangered, or extinct.
The scale of potential loss is difficult to overstate. At current rates, the linguist David Crystal estimated in 2000 that a language was dying every two weeks. More recent assessments by the Endangered Languages Project and academic linguists suggest the rate has accelerated as urbanisation draws young people from minority language communities into cities where major language use is economically necessary.
The most severe concentration of language endangerment by country:
Australia had approximately 250–350 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages before European settlement in 1788. Today, fewer than 40 are being transmitted to children as first languages. Languages like Wiradjuri (New South Wales) and Yolŋu Matha (Northern Territory) have active community revitalisation programmes. Others — including dozens of languages from Tasmania, where the entire Aboriginal population was effectively eliminated in the 19th century — have gone entirely extinct.
Mexico has 289 indigenous languages ranging from Nahuatl (1.7 million modern speakers — the largest indigenous language of the Americas by speaker count) to critically endangered languages with single-digit speaker populations. Ayapaneco (Zoque-Ayapaneco) became an internationally reported story in 2011 when it was revealed that only two native speakers remained — and they had stopped speaking to each other due to a personal dispute. The subsequent international media coverage prompted community reconciliation and a documentation effort, and the language now has an active transmission programme with a small number of children learning it. The episode illustrates both the fragility of small languages and the occasionally surprising reversals possible with timely intervention.
What is lost when a language disappears is not merely a communication system. Each language encodes a unique classification of the natural world — plant and animal names that may have no equivalent in dominant languages, and that sometimes encode ecological knowledge developed over thousands of years of observation. Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) — detailed understanding of local species behaviour, seasonal patterns, and environmental relationships — is predominantly encoded in indigenous languages and is frequently lost when languages die, even when it is not documented. Pharmacologists and ethnobotanists have found biomedically valuable compounds identified in indigenous medical traditions encoded in minority language knowledge systems.
Source: Harrison, K.D. (2007). When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge. Oxford University Press.
Why tropical islands and rainforests produce the most languages
The geographic distribution of language diversity is not random, and its pattern is predictable from first principles.
Languages multiply where communities remain isolated from each other over long time periods. Three geographic environments produce isolation most reliably:
Mountain ranges and deep valleys prevent easy contact between settlements separated by ridges. The Caucasus region between Russia and the Middle East contains approximately 50 distinct languages in a territory smaller than California — a density reflecting the extreme geographic compartmentalisation of valleys radiating from the Greater Caucasus Range. Papua New Guinea's central highlands produce the same effect at greater scale.
Island chains create natural water barriers between communities. Indonesia (17,000+ islands), the Philippines (7,000+ islands), and Vanuatu (80+ islands) all show high linguistic diversity correlated with their island geography. Vanuatu, with 113 languages in a population of 330,000, has the highest language density of any country in the world at 342 languages per million people — an extraordinary figure explained by its 80+ separate islands, many of which developed distinct languages in relative isolation.
Dense tropical rainforests make travel slow and communities self-sufficient. The Congo Basin and Amazonia both show high linguistic diversity in their core territories. Communities that can subsist independently on forest resources have less need for the trade and military contact that tends to spread dominant languages and suppress minority ones.
The connection also runs the other direction: low-diversity environments tend to produce large, spread languages. The great grassland and steppe environments of Eurasia — the Eurasian steppe, the Arabian Peninsula, the North American Great Plains — facilitated the movement of pastoralists whose languages spread across enormous territories, replacing earlier diversity. The Indo-European languages, which today have 3+ billion speakers across most of Europe, Iran, India, and the Americas, spread largely through the movement of steppe pastoralists out of the Pontic steppe north of the Black Sea beginning approximately 5,000 years ago. The replacement of the earlier linguistic diversity of Europe and South Asia with Indo-European languages was one of the most significant language-replacement events in history.
Source: Currie, T.E. et al. (2013). "Cultural Phylogeography of the Bantu Languages of sub-Saharan Africa." Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 280(1762).
Per-leader deep dives: India, China, and the politics of language
India (454 languages, ranked 4th) is the most linguistically complex large democracy in the world, and its language policy has been one of its most contentious political issues since independence.
The Indian constitution recognises 22 "Scheduled Languages" — those listed in the Eighth Schedule, which include Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, and others — and specifies Hindi and English as the official languages of the Union government. But India has far more than 22 languages; the 2011 census recorded 1,369 distinct mother tongues when all responses were enumerated, of which 121 were spoken by 10,000 or more people.
The Three Language Formula — instruction in the regional language, Hindi (for non-Hindi-speaking states), and English — has been implemented with variable success and intense controversy. Tamil Nadu and other southern states have resisted Hindi as a second language on the grounds that it privileges the Hindi-speaking north at their expense. The linguistic politics of India are inseparable from the caste, regional, and ethnic politics that run through the country's democratic competition.
China (297 languages, ranked 6th) presents a contrasting case. The Chinese government's classification of language versus dialect is explicitly political: Cantonese (spoken by 85+ million people, mutually unintelligible with Mandarin), Shanghainese (80+ million speakers), Hokkien (50+ million speakers), and others are classified as "dialects" (方言, fāngyán) of Chinese rather than separate languages, in part because recognising them as separate languages would complicate the narrative of Chinese national unity. Linguists outside China generally regard Cantonese, Mandarin, and the other major Sinitic varieties as separate languages by any structural criterion.
China's language policy actively promotes Putonghua (Standard Mandarin) as the universal language of education and public life. All formal education in China is conducted in Mandarin; regional languages have no official status in schools, courts, or government offices. This has significantly reduced the use of regional languages among younger generations in urban areas, and is classified by UNESCO as a policy creating language shift away from minority languages at scale.
Source: Zhou, M. (2003). Multilingualism in China: The Politics of Writing Reforms for Minority Languages, 1949–2002. Mouton de Gruyter.
Language revitalisation: what works and what doesn't
Languages can be revitalised — but the conditions for success are demanding and the failures outnumber the successes.
Hebrew is the most widely cited case of a language revived from near-extinction to full living use. By the late 19th century, Hebrew had no native speakers — it existed as a liturgical and scholarly language read and written but not spoken as a first language in any community. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda's campaign for Hebrew revival, combined with the Zionist settlement of Palestine and the necessity of a neutral language for immigrants from dozens of countries, transformed Hebrew into a living vernacular. Today, 9 million people speak Hebrew as a first language. The conditions that made this possible — intense political motivation, a concentrated speech community with shared goals, and the absence of any dominant competing language within the new community — are unlikely to be replicated elsewhere.
Welsh (Wales, UK) is a partial success story. Welsh was in steady decline through the 20th century, with speaker numbers falling from approximately 900,000 in 1900 to under 500,000 by the 1980s. Concerted policy intervention — mandatory Welsh instruction in Welsh schools, the Welsh-language television channel S4C (launched 1982), official bilingual status in Wales, and a Welsh Language Act — has stabilised and modestly reversed the decline. The 2021 UK census recorded approximately 875,000 Welsh speakers — the first increase in generations. This represents a genuine revitalisation success, though Welsh remains a minority language in Wales by speaker numbers.
Māori (New Zealand) has undergone a sustained revitalisation effort since the 1970s, including Māori-medium schools (Kura Kaupapa Māori), a Māori television channel (Māori TV), and constitutional recognition as an official language. The proportion of Māori people who can hold a conversation in te reo Māori has grown, though the language remains endangered by standard definitions.
The conditions that predict revitalisation success: a living community of speakers committed to transmission, political and institutional support (official status, media, education), economic non-disadvantage (so that maintaining the minority language does not reduce economic opportunities), and preferably geographic concentration of speakers. Most endangered languages have none of these conditions.
Source: Grenoble, L.A. & Whaley, L.J. (2006). Saving Languages: An Introduction to Language Revitalization. Cambridge University Press.
Trends: what will the linguistic map look like in 2100?
The most reliable projection in linguistics is that language extinction will continue to accelerate. Urbanisation is the primary driver: as populations move from rural communities (where minority languages are sometimes the only local language) to cities (where dominant languages are economically necessary), intergenerational language transmission breaks. A child raised in Lagos speaks Yoruba or Igbo at home but conducts their education, employment, and aspirational social life in English or pidgin. Their children may not speak Yoruba at all.
The top 10 languages by speaker count — Mandarin, Spanish, English, Hindi, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, and Punjabi — are all stable or growing. English is expanding as a second language at the expense of smaller national languages across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The global dominance of English in science, technology, business, and digital media creates economic incentives to prioritise English acquisition over mother-tongue maintenance that are extremely difficult for language policy to counteract.
Digital technology presents a genuinely mixed picture. On one hand, the internet is overwhelmingly English-language content: the estimated share of internet content in English is approximately 55–60%, despite English being spoken by perhaps 15–20% of the global population. This creates systematic pressure for English acquisition. On the other hand, digital tools have enabled documentation, audio recording, and preservation of endangered languages at unprecedented scale. The Endangered Languages Project (funded by Google) has supported documentation of 3,000+ endangered languages. Whether documentation is meaningful if no children learn to speak the documented language is the central question for language revitalists.
Frequently asked questions
Q: What is the difference between a language and a dialect?
A: Max Weinreich captured it: "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy." Linguistically, mutual intelligibility determines the distinction — speakers of variety A and B who cannot understand each other speak separate languages. In practice, this criterion is inconsistently applied: mutually intelligible Scandinavian languages are counted as three separate languages; mutually unintelligible Chinese "dialects" are counted as one. Political and national interests determine which varieties get "language" status.
Q: How many languages are endangered?
A: Ethnologue classifies approximately 3,000 of the 7,168 languages as endangered — fewer than 1,000 active speakers or severely reduced intergenerational transmission. UNESCO's Atlas tracks 2,500 languages at various endangerment levels. Linguists project that 50–90% of languages spoken today could disappear by 2100, though revitalisation efforts and policy changes may alter this trajectory.
Q: Which language family is the largest?
A: Niger-Congo, centred in sub-Saharan Africa, contains approximately 1,540 individual languages — the most of any family. Indo-European (English, Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Russian, Bengali, Portuguese) has the most total speakers at 3+ billion first-language speakers. Austronesian is most geographically widespread, extending from Madagascar to Easter Island, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Pacific island groups.
Q: Can a lost language be revived?
A: Yes, but successful revival requires rare conditions. Hebrew's revival from liturgical to living language is the strongest case, requiring intense political motivation, a committed speech community, and context where no competing language serves community needs. Māori, Welsh, and Hawaiian show partial success through sustained policy and community effort. Most endangered languages lack committed speech communities, institutional support, and economic conditions making language maintenance compatible with economic participation.
Q: How does linguistic diversity affect infrastructure planning?
A: Countries with high linguistic diversity face challenges in infrastructure planning and public communication. Emergency warnings, road signs, public health information, and school instruction must choose: dominant language (excluding minority speakers) or multiple languages simultaneously (expensive and complex). Linguistically diverse developing nations face particular infrastructure accessibility challenges.
Q: What is the connection between linguistic diversity and biodiversity?
A: Geographic correlations show areas with highest language families also have highest plant and animal species. This reflects shared causes: tropical, geographically fragmented environments promote both biological and linguistic speciation through population isolation. Indigenous communities in biodiversity hotspots have developed detailed ecological knowledge encoded in their languages. Language loss frequently means loss of this accumulated ecological knowledge.
The takeaway
The world's linguistic diversity is concentrated in a handful of countries — Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Nigeria, India, and a dozen others that together host the majority of all human languages. This diversity is not merely a curiosity for linguists. Each language encodes a unique classification of the natural world, unique grammatical structures that shape cognitive possibilities, and unique cultural histories developed over thousands of years. The acceleration of language extinction, driven by urbanisation, economic incentives for dominant-language acquisition, and the digital dominance of English, represents an irreversible loss of human heritage. The question is not whether any individual language has scientific value — every language does. The question is whether the global community will invest the political will and resources to document, support, and where possible revitalise minority languages before the century ends with perhaps half of them gone.
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