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Hale, Kenneth (March 1992). "Endangered languages: On endangered languages and the safeguarding of diversity". Language. 68 (1): 1–42. Harrison, K. David (2007). When languages die: the extinction of the world's languages and the erosion of human knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-518192-0. Landweer, M. Lynne (2011).
Language death: Factual and theoretical explorations with special reference to East Africa(Vol. 64). Walter de Gruyter. Wamalwa, E. W., & Stephen, O. (2013). Language endangerment and language maintenance: Can endangered indigenous languages of Kenya be electronically preserved?. Sands, B. (2017).
Lists of endangered languages are mainly based on the definitions used by UNESCO. In order to be listed, a language must be classified as " endangered " in a cited academic source. Researchers have concluded that in less than one hundred years, almost half of the languages known today will be lost forever. [ 1 ]
An endangered language or moribund language is a language that is at risk of disappearing as its speakers die out or shift to speaking other languages. [1] Language loss occurs when the language has no more native speakers and becomes a " dead language ".
This is a list of extinct languages of Africa, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant. There are 70 languages listed. There are 70 languages listed.
The Catalogue of Endangered Languages provides information on each of the world's currently endangered languages. It provides information on: the languages' vitality (their prospects for continued use), such as number of speakers, trends in the number of speakers, intergenerational transmission; the language's spheres of use
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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger; Endangered Languages Project; Ethnologue; Unclassified language;