chapter 172 , april 5 , 2009 : the country has lost cornish in the department of man , ubykh in turkey and this year alaska ' s last local speaker of eyak , nancy smith jones , died , adopting the aboriginal people with her . of the 6 , 900 languages used in the nation , some 2 , 500 are endangered , the eu ' s cultures department unesco said this week as it revealed its new atlas of world languages . that represents a multi - size increase from the last census compiled in 2001 which listed 900 languages threatened with extinction . but experts think this is more the result of less research tools than of an extremely dire situation for the world ' s many tongues .
2,500 languages are in danger of extinction.