India on the verge of the dialect extinction crisis

With 196 of its languages listed as endangered, India, a nation with great linguistic diversity, tops the UNESCO’s list of countries having maximum number of dialects on the verge of extinction.

India is closely followed by the US which stands to lose 192 languages and Indonesia, where 147 are in peril.



The facts were revealed in the latest Atlas of World’s Languages in Danger of Disappearing unveiled by the UN’s cultural agency UNESCO.

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