Rarest Language in the World

It may surprise you that there are 165 indigenous languages in North America alone. However, only a handful of now-elderly persons speak the majority of them. Only eight of them are spoken by over 10,000 people. These languages have a slim chance of surviving.  One might glance at a continent like South America and see that most countries speak Spanish. The long-term loss of languages can be attributed to demographic trends. Languages from Asia,  Africa, and Australia became extinct as European settlers traveled around the world in the Americas. If current trends continue, Ethnologue estimates that at least 3,000 languages will be extinct by the century. Today, about half of the total list has been completed!

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