Why is the number of languages "increasing"?
Lots of languages and species are going extinct, but because others keep getting found or described, the official counts of languages and species are still increasing.
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Language death: when a language loses its last known native speaker.
- Species extinction: the termination of a species by the death of its last member.
- Ethnologue.com: the world’s foremost authority on the languages of the world and their current status.
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