Vanishing languages identified

Oklahoma has earned the dubious distinction of being one of the five worst “language-loss hotspots” in the world—places where native languages are going extinct the fastest—according to an analysis released yesterday. But Oklahoma isn’t alone. Researchers in Northern Australia have recorded the last known speaker of Amurdag—a man who remembers about 100 words that he last heard spoken by his now-deceased father. Read more of this article from The Washington Post.