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Nubaca language: Severely endangered [1] baf Somyev language: Critically endangered [1] Also spoken in: Nigeria: kgt Tuotomb language: Severely endangered [1] ttf Yasa language: Definitely endangered [1] Also spoken in: Equatorial Guinea: yko Zina (Jina) Language: Severely endangered [citation needed] ISO 639-3 Jia
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 ]
Hale, Kenneth (March 1992). "Endangered languages: On endangered languages and the safeguarding of diversity". Language. 68 (1): 1–42. Harrison, K. David (2007). When languages die: the extinction of the world's languages and the erosion of human knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-518192-0. Landweer, M. Lynne (2011).
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 ".
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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
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