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The rate of loss is quickening, from one every three months a decade ago to one every 40 days in 2019 meaning nine languages die a year .
Some languages are disappearing with their last speakers, but thousands are endangered because they are not being spoken widely enough or are not used in formal settings such as schools or workplaces.
A quiet fightback is under way in communities that feel their traditions are drowned out by the dominance of English .
So, no one was passing down the language any more they used to say you’re not going anywhere with Igbo ,” she says. But efforts to save it have worked, she says, adding that it gives her pleasure to see the language thriving again. “I have realised that, yes, a language can be endangered but then the people who speak the language can also fight for its survival. Because 2025 is already here, and definitely Igbo is not going extinct,” she says..
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