How Climate Change1 Is Killing the World's Languages？气候变化如何令世界上的语言消亡？

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There are about7，000 spoken languagesin the world， and every 40days one language dies2.About 1，500 languagescould be lost in the next100 years， scientists find.And the world climate is becoming warmer andwarmer. How climate change is killing theworld’s languages？

Scientists see that many small islands3countries—there’s only 100 people speak theirlanguage—are facing climate change. When theweather becomes warmer， the sea will rise4.Vanuatu is an island country. It’s very small—only 12，189 square kilometers5—but it has110 languages spoken there， one for each 111square kilometers. It is in the great danger ofsea rise. If the sea rises， people there will haveto move away from their home.

世界上约有7000 种口语语言，每四十天就有一种消亡。（剩余1231字）