Motherboard says The Internet Is Killing Most Languages: The great flat, globalized world of the internet operates pretty much as a monoculture, Kornai says. Only about 250 languages can be called well-established online, and another 140 are borderline. Of the 7,000 languages still alive, perhaps 2,500 will survive, in the classical sense, for another century, and many fewer will make it on to the internet. Globalization of the world and the web could lead to homogenization of the languages ...
