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Niger–Congo is a hypothetical language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa. [1] It unites the Mande languages, the Atlantic–Congo languages (which share a characteristic noun class system), and possibly several smaller groups of languages that are difficult to classify.
Pages in category "Endangered Niger–Congo languages" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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 ]
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.
Endangered Niger–Congo languages (1 C, 25 P) A. ... Pages in category "Niger–Congo languages" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Endangered Niger–Congo languages (1 C, 25 P) S. Shabo language (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Endangered languages of Africa" The following 55 pages are in this ...
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
UNESCO flag. The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger was an online publication containing a comprehensive list of the world's endangered languages.It originally replaced the Red Book of Endangered Languages as a title in print after a brief period of overlap before being transferred to an online-only publication.