169 local languages likely to extinct:
Only 10 percent of the nation's local languages will survive by the end of the century, according to a researcher.Abdul Rachman Patji, the head of a social and cultural research center at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, said that up to 169 local languages would likely become extinct due to lack of use.Abdul cited urbanization and...
The latest atlas of world languages represents a multi-fold increase from the last atlas compiled in 2001, which listed 900 languages threatened with extinction.