Oceania is the region with the most languages classified as threatened or endangered to some degree (733) while Asia is home to a similarly high level of at-risk languages (693).
By the end of this century, we will have lost about half of the world's languages. To protect Indigenous languages under threat, we must defend language rights.
'Run to the mountain!" shouted the shaman. Nat tensed up as he recalled the most horrifying day of his life. Despite his initial shock, Nat, along with his father and others, clawed their way up a nearby mountain as a tsunami hit the Andaman coast in 2004.
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