Tribal languages in India face extinction threat

There are 7,000 living languages in the world and around 3,000 are considered as endangered.
This means that almost half of the planet’s current linguistic diversity is under threat.
Around 197 Indian languages are in various stages of endangerment in our country, the highest in the world.
There are 780 living languages at present and 400 of them are at risk of dying.
There are five tribal languages that are moving towards extinction in India.
The most threatened language is Majhi in Sikkim (with only 4 speakers).
The Mahali language in eastern India, Koro in Arunachal Pradesh, Sidi in Gujarat and Dimasa in Assam are facing extinction.
UNESCO has put Asur, Birhor and Korwa in its list of world’s endangered languages with Birhor being categorised as Critically Endangered.
Two major tribal languages included in the Eighth Schedule- Bodo and Santali, have shown decline.
According to UNESCO, any language that is spoken by less than 10,000 people is potentially endangered.
In India, after the 1971 census, govt. decided to not include any language spoken by less than 10,000 in the official list of languages.