whats the most rare language in the world?

Question

i really wanna know.

Answer 1

Linguists say there may be more than 6,500 languages spoken around the world

Answer 2

Article of 9 November , 2004 :
"According to the United Nations, a language disappears on average every two weeks, while about half the world's 6,000 languages are threatened with extinction.

One of the world's rarest languages is spoken by just four elderly Aboriginal people in Western Australia's desert Pilbara region."
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2004/s1239651.htm

Answer 3

The Cornish Language

Answer 4

I would have thought the clicking language, also. But Wikipedia says otherwise:

"Xhosa is one of the official languages of South Africa. It is spoken by approximately 7.9 million people, about 18% of the South African population. Click consonants feature prominently in the sounds of this language. Even the name, "Xhosa", begins with a click."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xhosa_language

My candidate for rare language would be Gaelic:

"Today in Ireland there is enthusiastic support for the language by many; however, fluent speakers of the language are at an all time low whilst...Reports paint a grim picture of a language which is learned not only through the English language but also by the rote learning method."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_Revival

Answer 5

The language of the Isle of Man (an island between England and Ireland). There is only one person left alive who can still speak it fluently.

The Islands of Vanuatu also have many rare languages, with a number of them only spoken a single small village. They use piggin (a mixed language) to speak between villages. The piggin language combines elements of English and island languages that are spoken by large numbers of people.

Answer 6

I'm not certain but in canada there are some native language speakers who are recording the language because there are only a handful of speakers left...I believe it's a tribe on the west coast of British Columbia...I saw a government produced documentary on this.

Answer 7

There are 357 languages spoken by fewer than 50 people including Putijarra (Papua New Guinean Aborigine) and Assyrian.

Answer 8

Mirandes! It is a language spoken only by a handful of people in the mountains in Northern Portugal. According to Wikepedia only 15000 people speak it

Answer 9

I wouldn't expect that we would know of it. If we did, it would not be the rarest. Certainly FAR less than a million speakers. I would say that you would likely find it in isolated areas of South America, Africa or East Asia where they continue to speak traditional languages.

Answer 10

I don't know about the rarest language now, but in July 1984 the language of Oubykh (spoken in Crimea) was spoken by just one person, and he was eighty-two years old.