Most endangered languages

In August 2008, The Guardian newspaper asked linguistics professor Peter K. Austin (UK), author of 1,000 languages: The Worldwide History of Living and Lost Tongues, to choose from the 6,900 known languages those most on the brink of dissapearing: 1. Jeru (aka Grand Andamanese) - Spoken by less than twenty people on the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean. 2. N|u (aka Khomani);(The character is pronounced like a tutting "tsk" sound) - Spoken by less than ten people in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, South Africa. 3. Ainu - Spoken by "a small number of old people" in Hokkaido, Japan. 4. Thao - Spoken by "a handful of old people" in Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan. 5. Yuchi* - Spoken by five people, all aged over 75, known as the Tsohaya ("Children of the Sun") in Oklahoma, USA. 6. Oro Win - Spoken by five members of the Oro Win tribe in the Rondonia state in Brazil. 7. Kusunda* - Spoken by eight people in western Nepal. 8. Ter Sami - Spoken by ten elderly people in the Kola Paninsula in Russia. 9. Guugu Yimidhirr - Spoken by 200 aboriginees in Hopevale near Cooktown, northern Queensland, Australia. 10. Ket - With 600 speakers, none of whom are children. Located along the Yenesei River, in eastern Siberia, Russia. * An "isolate language", meaning one that has no relation to any other language on earth.