What lanuage has the least number of speakers?

Question

...and what country is it spoken in?

Answer 1

There are plenty of almost-dead languages with only one or a handful of speakers. You could search the http://www.ethnologue.org/ website for these languages. There are too many to list here.

Answer 2

I am sorry. There are too many of those...
Please see the site below for more details:

http://www.ethnologue.com/nearly_extinct.asp

For example:
Location: Africa-Cameroon
Language: Bikya. 1 (1986)





REFERNCE:
languages into six categories:

extinct : with no living speakers
nearly extinct : with maximally tens of speakers, all elderly
seriously endangered : with a more substantial number of speakers but almost no children speakers
endangered : with some children speakers in the group of speakers but decreasingly
potentially endangered: with a large number of children speakers but without an offical or prestigious status
not endangered : with safe transmission of the language to new generations.

Answer 3

Esperanto. (ĕsprän´tō) , an artificial language introduced in 1887 and intended by its inventor, Dr. Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (1859—1917), a Polish oculist and linguist, to ease communication between speakers of different languages. In the 20th cent. it has been taught in schools and universities throughout the world but has not received wide acceptance as an international language. Its grammar and lexicon are relatively unfamiliar to users who do not know other Indo-European languages; its syntax, spelling, and pronunciation are influenced especially by Slavonic.

Answer 4

I believe there is a language in Sub-Saharan Africa that is only spoken by one very eldarly man at this point in time. They're frantically trying to write a dictionary and a set of grammar rules before he dies.

Answer 5

I remember reading something about some language with only 12 speakers left sometime... but I dont rememberwhat it is so I'll say summarian.

Answer 6

I'm surprised no one has given you this web site yet. It is a good list of endangered languages, many of which have fewer than 10 speakers left:

http://www.ethnologue.com/nearly_extinct.asp

Answer 7

Wiccan language

Answer 8

Blag booadegen pein sleod leped dong. Wondaz yecher.

The langauge I just made up. One speaker.

Answer 9

Mime

Answer 10

Twins sometimes come up with their own language that only they speak to each other.