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At about 30.2 million km 2 (11.7 million sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area. [2] With about 922 million people (as of 2005) [ 3 ] in 61 territories, it accounts for about 16.1% of the world's human population .
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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 ]
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 ".
This is a list of extinct languages of Africa, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant. There are 70 languages listed. There are 70 languages listed.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Endangered Niger–Congo languages (1 C, 25 P) S. Shabo language (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Endangered languages of Africa"
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
Critically endangered languages: Only old people know the language and it is rarely used by them: Dahalik, Duruwa, Orok, Tofa, Ulch: Extinct language: 1. There are no living native speakers in the world 2. Previously, the language definitely existed, but now there is no reliable information about its state 1. Dalmatian, Obispeño, Gothic 2.