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There are languages in Indonesia reported with as many as two million native speakers alive now, but all of advancing age, with little or no transmission to the young. On the other hand, while there are only 30,000 Ladin speakers left, almost all children still learn it as their mother tongue; thus Ladin is not currently endangered.
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".
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.
Endangered languages. Language, 68 (1), 1–42. Harmon, David. (2002). In light of our differences: How diversity in nature and culture makes us human. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Harrison, K. David. (2007) When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge.
According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO),from facts published in their "Atlas of Languages in Danger of Disappearing", there are an estimated 7,000 languages spoken worldwide today, and half of the world's population speaks the eight most common. [4]
More than 300 languages or language groups are represented in the 207 field collections of the Archives. Many of the languages documented in the Archives are endangered or moribund. The collection consists of approximately 2350 recordings on tape and 275 recordings on instantaneous discs made between the 1930s and the mid-1970s.
Phonological Process: Patterns that young children use to simplify adult speech [6] Soundless Vowels: Inaudible, unvoiced vowels or syllables [2] Language Death: The death of the last speaker of a language [7] Phoneme: A distinct unit of sound in a language; Contraction: Shortened version of a written or spoken word [8]
Achumawi language [1] 8 Critically endangered Acoma-Laguna language [1] 10,670 (2007) Definitely endangered Keresan languages: Ahtna language [1] 80 Critically endangered Alabama language [1] 370 Definitely endangered Aleut language (Eastern) [1] 150 (2011) Critically endangered Number of speakers includes both Eastern and Western dialects.