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| | List_of_endangered_languages LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | In order to judge if a language is endangered, the number of speakers is less important than the age distribution; there may be 500,000 speakers of the Breton over 50 years of age, but fewer than 2,000 under 25 years of age - it is likely Breton will die out in the next half-century. |
 | | There are languages in Indonesia reported to be in a similar situation with as many as two million native speakers alive now, but all of advancing age, with practically no transmission to the young. |
 | | While there are somewhere around six or seven thousand languages on Earth today, about half of them have fewer than about 3,000 speakers, and experts predict that even in a good scenario, about half of today's languages will go extinct within the next fifty to one hundred years. |
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