Emphasis Preaching Journal

In his book, Language in Danger: How Language Loss Threatens Our Future, linguist Andrew Dalby warns that many human languages are in danger of becoming extinct. He estimates that by the end of the century, about half of the existing 5,000 or more languages will be extinct, an extinction rate of about one language every two weeks. Some of the reasons for this threat to languages are rather obvious: colonization, subjugation, invasion, economic pressures from the dominant language group, even government enforcement against certain languages.