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India; Language Status Comments ISO 639-3 Speakers A'tong language: Severely endangered [1] aot (undated figure of 10,000, 4,600 in India) Adi language: Vulnerable [1] Also spoken in: China: adi: 150,000 total for the various languages (2011 census) Aimol language: Critically endangered [1] aim: 6,000 (2001 census) Aiton language: Severely ...
Khiamniungan language; Khoirao language; Kinnauri language; Koch language; Koda language; Kodava language; Koireng language; Kolami; Kom language (India) Konda language (Dravidian) Konyak language; Koraga language; Korku language; Koro language (India) Korwa language; Kota language (India) Kui language (India) Kullui; Kumaoni language; Kuvi ...
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.
States and union territories of India by the spoken first language [1] [note 1]. The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages.Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (precisely Munda and Khasic) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (precisely Tibeto-Burman) (c. 0.8%), with ...
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". If no one can speak the language at all, it becomes an "extinct language".
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An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native speakers, it becomes a dead language . A language may be endangered in one area but show signs of revitalisation in another, as with the Irish language .