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 | | According to the latest and most authoritative survey of the world's tongues -- Ethnologue, published in 1996 by the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Dallas -- 336 languages are ''nearly extinct,'' meaning that parents no longer teach them to their children. |
 | | Among the recent disappearances, say linguists, are Northern Pomo, a Californian Indian language; Sirenik Eskimo; Quinault, spoken by Indians in Washington State; Kasabe, spoken in the Adamawa province of Cameroon, and Ona, spoken in Tierra del Fuego in southern Argentina. |
 | | Krauss brought attention to the erosion of the world's language diversity in 1992, when he predicted that at least half the world's roughly 6,500 languages would become extinct over the next century. |
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