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Four in 10 indigenous languages at risk of disappearing, warn UN human rights experts

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UN News

Publication Date
2019-08-08

Of 7,000 indigenous languages spoken today, four in 10 are in danger of disappearing, rights experts said on Wednesday, in a call for a decade of action to reverse the “historic destruction” of age-old dialects.

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https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/08/1043871