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likely | danger | academy | extend | threat |
The linguistic (1)___________ of an ecological disaster is looming, according to researchers from the University of Manchester, who say there is considerable (2)________ that many world languages will disappear by 2050. (3)____________ from the linguistics department staged an "(4)__________ Languages" day last month where they spoke of their (5)_________ research. Professor Stephen Perry explained: "British Romani is an example of a language now almost at the level of (6)__________. There is no (7)__________ of languages - at the last count there were about 6000 - but 4% of them are spoken by 96% of the people. No one needs to worry about them. But the little-(8)___________ languages with a chance of (9)_______ might need help. People know which species are being (10)_________ but they don't realize that we are leaving languages to die out. A language can only survive if it is transmitted from parents to their children.