Khasi Language on the verge of extinction: A UNESCO report.

[Pranab Doley]

The Khasi language with rich history, spoken by about a million people in Meghalaya, is facing a threat to its own existence, a UNESCO report has said.Khasi is among the 196 languages of India listed as endangered by UNESCO. India, a nation with great linguistic diversity, tops UNESCO’s list of countries having the maximum number of dialects on the verge of extinction.

Khasi might soon have no speakers left as it is one of the 196 Indian languages that, the UNESCO report says, are “falling silent.”

Khasi is part of the Khasi-Khmuic group of languages, and is distantly related to the Munda branch of the Austro-Asiatic family which is found in east-central India.These facts have been included in the latest Atlas of World’s Languages in Danger of Disappearing unveiled by the UN’s cultural agency UNESCO on the eve of the International Mother Language Day on Saturday last.

The atlas classifies around 2,500 of the 6,000 languages of the world as endangered — 538 critically endangered, 502 severely endangered, 632 definitely endangered and 607 unsafe.It says nearly 200 languages have fewer than 10 speakers and 178 others have between 10 and 50 speakers and over 200 languages used in the world have died out over the last three generations.

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