A staggering 44% of human languages are endangered – with culture, tradition and whole ways of understanding the world at stake A staggering 44% of human languages are endangered – with culture, tradition and whole ways of understanding the world at stake W e are lucky to know anything at all about the Ubykh language. In the 1800s, tens of thousands of people spoke it on the Black Sea coast. When Russia conquered the region, the Ubykhs resisted until they were forced into exile in the Ottoman