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There are 7,000 languages spoken across the world.
Yet 80% of the population speaks just 1.1% of the languages, and 43% of the languages are endangered.
What happens when they die out?
In today's episode we cover:
- How people feel differently when speaking different languages
- The 12 'dominant' world languages
- Why have certain languages dominated?
- Why do languages die out?
- When the last two speakers of a language hate each other
- Dying languages in the UK
- Hawaiian - a revival success story
- Reviving a dead language
- Written vs. oral languages
- Should we save languages?
- Why language is a part of culture
Full transcript and key vocabulary available on the website www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/dying-languages
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