title: Digital language death.
abstract: Of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken today, some 2,500 are generally considered endangered. Here we argue that this consensus figure vastly underestimates the danger of digital language death, in that less than 5% of all languages can still ascend to the digital realm. We present evidence of a massive die-off caused by the digital divide.
authors.affiliation: Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: András
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kornai
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics