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  2. Lists of endangered languages - Wikipedia

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    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] The lists are organized by region.

  3. Endangered language - Wikipedia

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    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 ".

  4. Catalogue of Endangered Languages - Wikipedia

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    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

  5. List of endangered languages in Europe - Wikipedia

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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 an extinct language . A language may be endangered in one area but show signs of revitalisation in another, as with the Irish language .

  6. List of revived languages - Wikipedia

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    A revived language is a language that at one point had no native speakers, but through revitalization efforts has regained native speakers. The most frequent reason for extinction is the marginalisation of local languages within a wider dominant nation state , which might at times amount to outright political oppression.

  7. List of countries by number of languages - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [ 1 ] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world.

  8. Lists of extinct languages - Wikipedia

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    Endangered Languages Project; Ethnologue; Unclassified language; List of languages by total number of speakers; UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger ...

  9. Endangered Languages Project - Wikipedia

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    There are 360 endangered languages catalogued in Australia, alone. [8] The ELP states that "over 40 percent of the approximately 7,000 languages worldwide are in danger of becoming extinct." [9] In 2018, members of the ELCat team published a book about the project, titled Cataloguing the World's Endangered Languages.> [10] The First Welsh Bible ...