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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 people, it becomes an extinct language . UNESCO defines four levels of language endangerment between "safe" (not endangered) and "extinct": [ 1 ]
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 ]
Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Endangered languages of Africa" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 ...
Clickable map showing the traditional language families, subfamilies and major languages spoken in Africa. Most languages natively spoken in Africa belong to one of the two large language families that dominate the continent: Afroasiatic, or Niger–Congo.
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).
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 03:17, 16 December 2010: 1,534 × 1,461 (750 KB): Brianski: Color Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea), as well as São Tome and Principe, acccording to ethnologue.
Created from File:Africa_map_blank.svg by User:Sting. Based design on File:Map_of_the_Niger-Congo_and_Khoisan_languages.svg by User:Alphathon. Language info: compiled from various Ethnologue country maps, as also compiled in Muturzikin. Author: User:SUM1
Created from File:Africa_map_blank.svg by User:Sting. Based design on File:African_language_families.png by User:Mark Dingemanse. Boundaries compiled from various Ethnologue country maps, as also compiled in Muturzikin. Author: User:SUM1: Other versions