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"Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger". UNESCO. EndangeredLanguages.com "Enduring Voices". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 2010-07-08. Ethnologue report of endangered languages. SIL International. 2005. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. Archived from the original on 2012-07-20.
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 ".
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
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.
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]
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. [citation needed]
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. Aleut language (Western) [1] 150 (2011) Severely ...
Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent. 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 ]