Economic prosperity has been called as the worst enemy of minority languages by researchers on Wednesday, who listed parts of Australia and North America as "hotspots" for extinction risk. Based on the same criteria used to determine the risk of extinction faced by animal and plant species, they concluded that about a quarter of the world's known 6,909 languages were threatened. "Languages are now rapidly being lost at a rate of extinction exceeding ...
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