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The inhabitants of Earth speak 7, languages, according to Ethnologue, a database that catalogs the living languages of the world. A recent US Census recorded about a hundred of them in New York City, the most linguistically diverse city in history.
It brings that language map to life in an exhilarating way. The nativist movement in the United States got its wish in with the passing of the Johnson—Reed Immigration Act, which shut down most immigration. A language gets to be endangered through the dislocation of communities, encroachment of majority languages, and loss of native speakers. With small languages, native speakers might number in the triple or even single digits. Unexpected languages turn up all over.
Of course these employees also know English; speakers of small languages become multilingual by necessity. Kichwa, a language descended from that of the ancient Incas, is the most widely spoken Indigenous language in New York. As the Inca Empire spread across parts of South America in pre-Columbian times, it drove out other languages. Now Kichwa qualifies as endangered, although 8, to 10, New Yorkers may speak it; but in a new country, parents are rarely able to pass along much of their mother tongue to their children.
He said that when he was growing up outside Quito, he knew people who spoke only Kichwa, but in the US he seldom hears it. There are speakers of other forms of Quechua in New York as well. A quarter of the languages in the city are from Africa, 40 percent from Asia. In Brooklyn, hundreds of Zaghawa-speaking refugees from the — genocide in Darfur now occupy a lively neighborhood called Little Darfur.
For some speakers of endangered languages, life itself has been precarious. In the Bronx in , a fire in the nineteen-story high-rise known as Touray Tower killed seventeen people, most of them from Gambia. Most were speakers of Soninke, a small-minority language even within that country. The terrible event—eight of the victims were children—ranks as one of the deadliest fires in recent city history. Another blaze, the Happy Land Social Club fire, also in the Bronx, killed eighty-seven clubgoers, most of them Garifuna, in The Garifuna, who have emigrated from Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize, descend from escaped African slaves and Caribbean Native people.