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List of languages by total number of speakers. UNESCO Atlas of the World's. Languages in Danger categories. v. t. e. 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 57 languages listed.
An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native people, it becomes an extinct language. UNESCO defines four levels of language endangerment between "safe" (not endangered) and "extinct": [1] Vulnerable. Definitely endangered.
SIL Ethnologue (2005) lists 473 out of 6,909 living languages inventorised (6.8%) as "nearly extinct", indicating cases where "only a few elderly speakers are still living"; this figure dropped to 6.1% as of 2013. [2][3] When judging whether or not a language is endangered, the number of speakers is less important than their age distribution.
by UNESCO Atlas of the World's. Languages in Danger category. Extinct (EX) Extinct (EX) (lists) Endangered. Critically Endangered (CR) Severely Endangered (SE) Definitely Endangered (DE)
B. Basa-Gumna language. Basa-Kontagora language. Beigo language. Berti language. Boro language (Ghana)
List of languages by time of extinction. An extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes extinct upon the death of its last native speaker, the terminal speaker. A language like Latin is not extinct in this sense, because it evolved into the ...
Category. : Lists of extinct languages. This is a collection of lists of extinct languages, languages that underwent language death and currently have no native speakers, and no spoken descendant. For historical forms of languages that evolved into more modern forms, see historical language. Though the languages on these lists have no direct ...
There are approximately 375 Afroasiatic languages spoken by over 400 million people. The main subfamilies of Afroasiatic are Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Omotic, Egyptian and Semitic. The Afroasiatic Urheimat is uncertain. The family's most extensive branch, the Semitic languages (including Arabic, Amharic and Hebrew among others), is the only ...