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Just like lives of any living creature or cultures forgotten, languages too are vulnerable to being endangered, which in simple words mean that it has a high exposure to becoming extinct and long forgotten due to inactivity and a smaller number of people speaking or remembering it. These languages are generally native languages that were once spoken in abundance and now due to the extinction of the culture or transition of the people into more globalized set-ups, have started to become spoken lesser. Often younger generations do not even speak the native languages in a family and slowly a language dies with only a few people speaking it.