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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 ... based on intergenerational ... political and economic marginalization accounts for most of the world's ...

  4. Catalogue of Endangered Languages - Wikipedia

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    ELCat has found that 45% of all currently-spoken languages are endangered, based on the 3116 still-spoken endangered languages in ELCat compared to the 6861 still-living languages listed by Ethnologue. ELCat finds that 299 languages have fewer than 10 speakers and that 792 are "critically" or "severely" endangered.

  5. 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.

  6. Ethnologue - Wikipedia

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    [54] The US National Science Foundation uses Ethnologue to determine which languages are endangered. [6] According to Hammarström et al., Ethnologue is, as of 2022, one of the three global databases documenting language endangerment with the Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger and the Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat). [55]

  7. 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 ...

  8. Degree of endangerment - Wikipedia

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    Language revitalization: The language is in the process of being restored: Cornish, Manchu, Manx and other Critically endangered languages: Only old people know the language and it is rarely used by them: Dahalik, Duruwa, Orok, Tofa, Ulch and other Extinct language: 1. There are no living native speakers in the world 2.

  9. Category:Lists of endangered languages - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Lists of endangered languages" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...