Irish is n’t just a nationality or inheritance — it ’s also a linguistic process . Otherwise known as Gaelic , the language has less than 450,000 speakers , making it one of 2500 endangered languages around the world . By the turn of the C , at least half of the world ’s spoken languages are expected to go extinct , concord to UNESCO [ PDF ] .
Financial avail websiteGoComparereached out to aboriginal speakers of 25 endangered languages and had them tape a translation of a quote by Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini in their mother tongue . The phrase was “ a different language is a different vision of life”—a reference to scientific grounds that speech not only shapes theway we thinkand comprehend the world around us , but also shapes ourculture .
One of the languages have in the labor , the Australian autochthonic speech of Wiradjuri , is talk by just 30 people . The continent was once home to 250 indigenous language , but only 40 of those are still spoken . Wiradjuri is see something of a revival , though , and schools in several area are now initiate to instruct the language .
Nawat , a language talk in El Salvador , has just 200 speakers remain . Also known as Pipil , the spoken communication evolved from Nahuatl , the spoken language of the Aztecs . harmonize to historianLaura Matthewof Marquette University , some Nahuatl speakers in El Salvador are too ashamed to speak their female parent clapper in public because of prejudice that persists in the country . Matthew and others around the world have started projects in an exertion to conserve important documents in imperil languages and encourage more people to read about them .
Below is the full list of languages that were included in the undertaking :
Aymara : Bolivia , Chile , PeruBalti : India , PakistanBasque : Spain , FranceBelarusian : Belarus , Latvia , Lithuania , Poland , Russia , UkraineBreton : FranceChoctaw : USACornish : EnglandGuaraní : Paraguay , Argentina , BrazilIrish : IrelandKalmyk : RussiaLimburgian : Netherlands , GermanyLombard : Italy , SwitzerlandNafusi : LibyaNawat : El SalvadorNorth Frisian : GermanyNorth Sami : Finland , Norway , Sweden , RussiaOjibwe : USAOssete : Georgia , RussiaQuechua : Bolivia , Peru , Ecuador , Colombia , ArgentinaVenetan : Italy , Croatia , Slovenia , Brazil , MexicoWalloon : Belgium , France , LuxembourgWelsh : WalesWest Frisian : NetherlandsWichi : Argentina , BoliviaWiradjuri : Australia
