* First Video: Australian Hidden Language
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In his book, "The Last Speakers: The Quest to Save the World's Most Endangered Languages" (National Geographic Books, 2010), K. David Harrison and his team traveled around the world to interview the few remaining speakers of dying languages, from Siberia to Bolivia.
Nearly 7,000 languages are spoken on Earth, and somewhere between 60% and 80% of them have yet to be documented. As speakers sw More..itch to global tongues, such as English and Spanish, they lose not only the ability to converse in their local languages but also the detailed cultural knowledge that these languages embody. Linguists estimate that a language dies every 14 days.
Below is a map showing the locations of some of these last speakers and the languages whose words they carry.
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