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Indigenous languages in danger
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JUNE 19, 2001 There is only one fluent speaker of Eyak, an Alaska Native language, left in the world: 83-year-old Marie Smith of Anchorage. Eyak is just one of a number of languages that the Worldwatch Institute says will go unspoken by the end of the century. Anywhere from half to 90 percent of the world's 6,800 languages could fall the same fate, says the group. Get the Story:
Many World Languages Face Extinction (AP 6/18)
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