Ten endangered languages
Kaixána
Where: Brazil According to reports from 2006, one named individual spoke this language – though he was 78 years old.
patwin
Where: USA native to northern california, by 2011 it was assumed that just one person spoke Patwin as their first language.
Diahói
Where: Brazil Probably fewer than a hundred members of the indigenous people who spoke this language live in southern Amazonas state; a 2006 study estimated that only one actually spoke the Diahói dialect.
Apiaka
Where: Brazil only a few hundred members of the Apiaká people survive in northern mato Grosso state; having adopted Portuguese, only one person is now believed to speak the language.
chaná
Where: Argentina/Uruguay in 2005, a man was discovered who spoke at least some words of this language, long believed extinct.
Bikya
Where: Cameroon in 1986, it was reported that only four people spoke this Bantoid language, only one of them fluently – and he was over 70 years old. Bikya may now be extinct.
pazeh
Where: Taiwan the last truly fluent native speaker of Pazeh, Pan Jin-yu, died in 2010 at the age of 96. A handful of her students continue to speak the language of this aboriginal people.
dampelas
Where: Indonesia native to a narrow stretch of northern sulawesi, estimates for the number of speakers varies widely – from as high as 10,000 to as low as one.
lae
Where: Papua new guinea in 2000, just a single person in morobe spoke this language. it may now be extinct.
Volow
Where: Vanuatu As another native language, mwotlap, gained in prominence, Volow declined. it is now believed that just one passive speaker remains in the village of Aplow.
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