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This really depresses me. Especially when America is so xenophobic at the moment. I am however somewhat fascinated by the idea of a language that’s spoken by only one person, which is incredibly counter intuitive — do they talk to themselves? National Geographic reports:

From Alaska to Australia, hundreds of languages around the world are teetering on the brink of extinction — some being spoken only by a single person, according to a new study.

The research has revealed five hotspots where languages are vanishing most rapidly: eastern Siberia, northern Australia, central South America, Oklahoma, and the U.S. Pacific Northwest (see map of the hotspots).

“Languages are undergoing a global extinction crisis that greatly exceeds the pace of species extinction,” said David Harrison, a linguistics professor at Pennsylvania’s Swarthmore College.

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