90 Percent Of Languages Will Be Extinct Next Century - And That's Good

This theory is interesting and the comments that follow the piece are too. - - Donna Poisl

by John McWhorter

Linguist and conservative commentator John McWhorter estimates the 6,000 languages spoken today will dwindle to only 600 next century.

He argues that this is part of a process that will confer economic and health benefits to the affected speakers. His main point is that the vast, vast majority of threatened languages are those spoken by isolated indigenous groups, and that these languages are, in fact, a driving force of their isolation.
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