LEL have typically been associated with small numbers of speakers, based on the scholarship about settlement colonies. However, not all minority languages are endangered, for a wide variety of reasons, especially when the minority population is isolated from the majority by natural phenomena, such as mountains and/or the rainforest, or when the relevant minority is exponentially powerful economically and/or politically. It was initially estimated that 90% of languages spoken around the world will be extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. The current prediction is about 50%. At least one historical linguist has speculated that there were about 140.000 languages spoken in Africa before the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of and within it. Also, correlations have been established between linguistic diversity and biodiversity. I show that, according to some experts working on biodiversity, the correlation is not entirely accurate. Some natural ecologies have been negatively impacted by the economic practices of the very people whose languages are claimed to be endangered as well as by those of the colonizers who exploited their natural ecosystems. Another critical question is whether humans’ dependence on languages can be equated with their dependence on their natural ecosystems. Fundamental to this revisitation is the question of what counts as a language and what counts as a dialect.