A language could be lost every month over the next four decades if steps aren't taken to preserve them, a new study suggests, with certain Indigenous languages at greatest risk of disappearing.
"Right now we're at a critical state in terms of language endangerment," Hannah Haynie, co-first author of the study and assistant professor in the department of linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder, said in a news release.
The researchers calculated functional richness for all languages available in the dataset and then again using only those that are not endangered in order to estimate potential loss."We found that, although functional richness declines only moderately on a global scale with the loss of languages that are under threat, the consequences of language loss vary markedly across regions," the study says.
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