How many languages have gone extinct in the last century?
History hard Data from 2023
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The answer
400 languages
Roughly 400.
UNESCO counts about 400 languages that have died out in the last hundred years — roughly one every three months. Around 3,000 more are considered endangered, meaning half of all human languages could be gone within a century.
Where this number comes from
| Source | UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2023 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | languages |
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