Five of Asia’s Most Endangered Languages

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Meet the “hairy Ainu” of Japan, Taiwan’s Saaroa, the Kusunda of Nepal, the last Manchus and the Jarawa of India’s Andaman Islands.

 

The rapid spread of  Mandarin, English, Spanish, Hindi-Urdu and Arabic as the 5 largest languages (most native speakers) is connected to the spread of globalization and the cultural aspects of that phenomenon.  These 5 declining languages represent the flip side of those cultural patterns.  

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