Linguistics & Language · Endangered & World Languages
A topic within Endangered & World Languages, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.
2 works
UNESCO
Documents the world's languages by vulnerability level and argues linguistic diversity is collapsing at a rate comparable to biodiversity loss, with roughly half of today's languages projected to disappear within a century.
link checked 17 Sept 2026David Harmon & Jonathan Loh
Builds a quantitative index tracking the number and geographic distribution of the world's languages over time, showing a measurable decline in global linguistic diversity comparable to indices used for biodiversity loss.