issue 172 , march 5 , 2009 : the community has lost manx in the isle of man , ubykh in turkey and last year alaska ' s last native speakers of eyak , marie william jones , died , taking the aboriginal language with her . of the 6 , 900 dialects spoken in the world , some 2 , 500 are endangered , the government ' s cultural agency europe said this weeks as it posted its next index of world languages . that includes a multi - fold increase from the last study compiled in 2001 which listed 900 languages threatened with apocalypse . but experts claim this is more the result of better measurement tools than of an increasingly volatile situation for the world ' s numerous voices .
2,500 languages are in danger of extinction.