Which of the following statements is most accurate regarding language today?
a. Nearly half of the world's remaining languages will become extinct over the next hundred years
b. Nearly all of the world's remaining languages will become extinct over the next 50 years.
c. Language is currently in a stage of revitalization and growth, and linguists project that more than 200 new languages will emerge in the next 100 years.
d. Languages constantly grow, develop, and die and there has never been a net loss of human language.
a
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a. True b. False
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