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This is a list of extinct languages of North America, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant, most of them being languages of former Native American tribes. There are 196 Indigenous, 2 Creole, 3 European, 4 Sign and 5 Pidgin languages listed. In total 210 languages.
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Pages in category "Extinct languages of North America" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 207 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
For many languages which have become extinct in recent centuries, attestation of usage is datable in the historical record, and sometimes the terminal speaker is identifiable. In other cases, historians and historical linguists may infer an estimated date of extinction from other events in the history of the sprachraum .
For historical forms of languages that evolved into more modern forms, see historical language. language portal Though the languages on these lists have no direct spoken descendant, some such as the Anglo-Norman language heavily influenced the development of a spoken language; in the case of Anglo-Norman, Middle English and Modern English ...
An endangered language is a language that it 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.
However, out of those 256 languages, 238 are in the realm of extinction. [2] That is, 92% of languages that are dying. The United States has the highest number of dying languages, 143 out of 219 languages, [3] then Canada with 75 dying out of its 94 languages, [4] and lastly, Greenland has the smallest number, nil of its two spoken languages. [5]