6 languages threatened with extinction .. one of them is spoken by only one person in the world!
A recent study revealed the most prominent endangered languages around the world, and this comes due to the small number of people who use them in their speech as a result of wars, genocide campaigns, natural disasters or political reasons that are a factor in their disappearance.
The six languages in danger of extinction are:
1- The Sami
language is a Nordic language and it consists of several languages and is used by about 25,000 to 30,000 people in the world from the northern regions such as Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.
2- Showa language
This language is also classified as one of the most endangered languages, because it is spoken by only 200 people in Mabe village, and only adults use it, while children use Setsuna or English.
3- The Kremchak language
. This is the official language of the sub-Crimean people in the Ukraine peninsula, and it is one of the languages prone to disappearance, as there are only about 200 people who speak this language now, and they are the people who were born during the 1930s or before.
4- The Okanagan Colville language
is one of the rarest languages and is used by the inhabitants of the countries of the Columbia River Basin, and it is spoken by 150 people, and although it is on the verge of extinction, the Catalog of Endangered Languages has succeeded in preserving the language areas through many resources, including videos.
5- Narrator's language
This language is used in Morobi province, and it is considered the language of Papua, and was used mainly at the beginning of the twentieth century, but this language is currently used by only one person.
6- The Rapa Nui
language is the language of the inhabitants of Al-Safa Island, a volcanic island located in Polynesia, and there are only about 3,400 people who speak this language.
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