516 of the languages listed in the Ethnologue are classified as nearly extinct. They are classified in this way when "only a few elderly speakers are still living."
Ethnologue catalog of endangered languages
Considering that there are 6,912 known living languages, it seems that we're losing our languages (and integrally-tied cultures) at an alarming rate.
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