Efforts to save endangered languages

I clipped this from the web six months ago, clearly intending to say something about it. Never quite got round to it at the time and now I have completely forgotten what that was. But I will post it up here anyway in case I do ever remember. I don't think it was something as boring as being pedantic about the odd way they have phrased their statistics in the emphasized line below. Then again I am quite boring and pedantic so maybe so.

only 11 are spoken by half the world's population

http://www.physorg.com/news179999981.html