issues 172 , may 5 , 2009 : the world has damaged manx in the archipelago of man , ubykh in turkey and last year alaska ' s last native user of eyak , marie grace hughes , died , taking the aboriginal language with her . of the 6 , 900 groups spoken in the americas , some 2 , 500 are endangered , the un ' s cultural agency unesco said this week as it released its latest atlas of world tongues . that represents a multi - fold increase from the last atlas compiled in 2001 which listed 900 nations threatened with genocide . but experts add this is more the resulted of faulty research tools than of an otherwise desperate situation for the world ' s many parts .
2,500 languages are in danger of extinction.