AliceMA to RiddlesEnglish · 7 months agoWhat is the least spoken language in the world?message-squaremessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up110file-text
arrow-up19message-squareWhat is the least spoken language in the world?AliceMA to RiddlesEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square3fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareikidd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese
minus-squareLovstuhagenlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·7 months agoHere is a fun addition to this – in the year 2010, Boa Sr died. She was the last speaker of the Bo language - one of the ten Great Andaman languages. So, in our lifetime, there was a language from this area that went from “1” speaker left to “0.” I would assume that there are a few tribal languages out there somewhere that have less than 100 though I couldn’t name them.
minus-squareLovstuhagenlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·7 months agoOddly enough, just came across a one speaker language in my Twitter just now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese
Here is a fun addition to this – in the year 2010, Boa Sr died. She was the last speaker of the Bo language - one of the ten Great Andaman languages.
So, in our lifetime, there was a language from this area that went from “1” speaker left to “0.”
I would assume that there are a few tribal languages out there somewhere that have less than 100 though I couldn’t name them.
Oddly enough, just came across a one speaker language in my Twitter just now.