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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 ]
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 ... were in Asia, and 30.3% (2,092) in Africa. ...
Endangered Niger–Congo languages (1 C, 25 P) S. ... Pages in category "Endangered languages of Africa" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total.
Endangered Languages Project; Ethnologue; Unclassified language; ... This is a list of extinct languages of Africa, languages which have undergone language death, ...
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
Pages in category "Lists of endangered languages" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. ... List of endangered languages in Africa;
Launched in 2007 by the joint effort of the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages and the National Geographic Society, it has organized expeditions to language "hotspots" around the world, e.g. to Australia, Bolivia, East India. Enduring Voices tries to understand the geographic dimensions of language distribution, determine how ...