Multiple Choice
The Ethnologue database originally compiled by a researcher wishing to translate the Bible into all the world's languages finds that
A) most cultures in the world are accepting Basque as a global tongue.
B) Basque is probably going to go extinct because it only has a few hundred speakers.
C) there are more than 400 languages of only a few speakers which are about to go extinct.
D) more Basque is spoken in America than in the Basque country in Europe.
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