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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.
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.
Degree of endangerment is an evaluation assigned by UNESCO to the languages in the Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. [1] Evaluation is given according to nine criteria, the most important of which is the criterion of language transmission between generations.
Language maintenance refers to the support given to languages that need for their survival to be protected from outsiders who can ultimately affect the number of speakers of a language. [3] UNESCO seeks to prevent language extinction by promoting and supporting the language in education, culture, communication and information, and science. [55]
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This is a list of endangered languages of Oceania, based on the definitions used by UNESCO. An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use because there is little transmission of the language to younger generations. If a language loses all of its native speakers, it becomes an extinct 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