{"id":113,"date":"2008-01-23T15:33:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T20:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/?p=141"},"modified":"2008-11-19T00:38:33","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T04:38:33","slug":"language-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"language death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just yesterday I was teaching the first class of an introductory linguistics course, and I asked students how many languages they thought were currently spoken in the world. \u00a0Guesses ranged from one to ten thousand, which was pretty good for a first class. \u00a0When the last version of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethnologue.com\/\">Ethnologue<\/a> came out, it claimed there were\u00a06,912 languages in the world. \u00a0As of two days ago, there are only 6,911: the last traditional speaker of Eyak, a native language of Alaska,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/aprn.org\/2008\/01\/22\/eyak-language-dies-with-its-last-speaker\/\">died at 89 years of age<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just yesterday I was teaching the first class of an introductory linguistics course, and I asked students how many languages they thought were currently spoken in the world. \u00a0Guesses ranged from one to ten thousand, which was pretty good for a first class. \u00a0When the last version of\u00a0Ethnologue came out, it claimed there were\u00a06,912 languages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}