Asia has 60% of the world's population, but only 20% of the languages dying. Why might that be?

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Answer 1

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The percentage of languages that are dying out in Asia is only around 20% from the total number of languages dying out in the world, despite it having around 60% of the global population is due to two reasons:

- Number of languages;

Asia, even though it has around 60% of the world's population, it only has around one third of the languages spoken in the world, so automatically there's a big disproportion between the number of population and number of languages, thus giving it a smaller percentage of languages dying out.

- Keeping the tradition;

Lots of Asian nations are not very willing to let their traditional language to die out and continue to speak it. Apart from the traditional point of view, another reason is that Asia has global economic powers, so learning languages like the English or Spanish are not of great benefit in general, so the pressure is much lesser.

Answer 2

Answer:

Number of languages

Explanation:

Even though some are dying out, people are shifting on to other languages

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There's a subtle point involved here that I'll try to explain, and
I hope you catch my explanation:

A real scientist does NOT "use evidence to support his theory".
That would mean that he dreamed up his theory, then he went
around observing the world and nature, and he wrote down and
took pictures of things he saw that supported his theory, and he
ignored anything that didn't support it. This is exactly how science
does NOT work. Anybody who operates that way is laughed out
of science and you never hear about him again.

The way science works is exactly the opposite: The curious
investigator observes the world and the things around him. He
sees how things actually work. That's the 'evidence'. Eventually
he comes to the point where he's ready to build a theory of WHY
or HOW things work the way they actually do.

The theory is built to explain the evidence. The evidence is not
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