How many languages have died since Man began to speak a language proper?

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See inside Ok, let's first define a 'dead language' :A dead language is a language which is no longer learned as a native language. Some well known examples of dead languages include Coptic, Ancient Greek, Latin, and Sanskirt, although there are numerous other dead languages from regions around the world, including huge numbers of Native American languages which died out with European colonialism. Some dead languages are topics of study because of their cultural, linguistic, or social importance, and some dead languages actually have numbers of speakers which exceed those of modern or living languages, languages which are learned as native tongues.In some cases, a dead language mutates into a modern language.

Ancient Greek, for example, was the obvious precursor to Modern Greek, although the two languages are markedly different. Latin gave birth to Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, while Sanskrit was the predecessor of many Indian languages.In these instances, many academics study the dead language to learn more about the history of a culture. The term “dead language” is also used to refer to a language which is obviously on the way to death.

In the Americas, for example, several Native American languages are known to a handful of older speakers, who may use them for communication, but these languages are obviously dying, as they are not used by the younger generation, and they have often stopped changing as well.In some communities, concerns about language death have led people to embark on programs which are designed to preserve these languages, and some communities have even tried to revive truly dead languages like Latin and Sanskrit.(http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-dead-language.htm)Then ontyo how many dead languages are there? According to cnet: A group of scientists recently concluded that of the 6,700-odd languages spoken throughout the world, as many as 90 percent will disappear within 100 years as younger generations communicate in only a handful of dominant languages. So, there are over 6000 languages on the brink of becoming 'dead'.(http://www.news.com/2100-1023-249501.html)There are quite a few lists of extinct languages, one of which calculates 232:http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/GetListOfAncientLgs.htmland also wikipedia has a list of 84:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_languagebut there are bound to be many more that are not listed here or anywhere.

A rough estimate would be that a same number of languages has already disappeared as we currently have: around 6700. Sources: diverse resources .

2 There's a "Language ball" (more of a cone really) at the Heureka Museum in Helsinki Finland. It shows the developement of Uralic Languages in a 3-D format. A cool concept when you think about it, since languages evolve and change (morph).

There's a "Language ball" (more of a cone really) at the Heureka Museum in Helsinki Finland. It shows the developement of Uralic Languages in a 3-D format. A cool concept when you think about it, since languages evolve and change (morph).

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