 Lost Languages of the World

Every two weeks, a language disappears. With it, unique traditions, stories, and identities fade away.

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Loss of speakers, migration, globalization, and neglect push many languages to extinction.

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Once spoken in Mesopotamia, Sumerian is the earliest written language. Today, it survives only in ancient texts.

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India’s classical Sanskrit influenced thousands of languages. Yet, it’s rarely spoken in daily life now.

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The language of the Roman Empire transformed into French, Spanish, Italian, but pure Latin is “dead.”

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Hebrew was once lost, but it was revived. Similar movements now fight for endangered tongues worldwide.

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Languages are more than words, they carry culture, history, and identity. Saving them means saving humanity’s memory.

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