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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.
List of extinct languages of Africa; List of extinct languages of Asia; List of extinct languages and dialects of Europe; List of extinct languages of Oceania; List of extinct languages of North America; List of extinct languages of South America
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 ...
Extinct language. An extinct language is a language with no living descendants that no longer has any first-language or second-language speakers. [1][2] In contrast, a dead language is a language that no longer has any first-language speakers, but does have second-language speakers or is used fluently in written form, such as Latin. [3]
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 ...