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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.
SIL Ethnologue (2005) lists 473 out of 6,909 living languages inventorised (6.8%) as "nearly extinct", indicating cases where "only a few elderly speakers are still living"; this figure dropped to 6.1% as of 2013. [2] [3] When judging whether or not a language is endangered, the number of speakers is less important than their age distribution.
This is a list of extinct languages of Central America and the Caribbean, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers, and no spoken descendants. There are 27 languages listed, 19 lost in Central America and 8 lost in the Caribbean.
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]
Red Book Culina language: Madija: 1300 [2] Red Book Ese Eja language: Red Book Harakmbut language: Red Book Huambisa language: Red Book Huitoto language: Red Book Inapari language: 4 (1999 SIL) Iquito language: 35 (2002 SIL) 1 monolingual 500. Isconahua language: 82 (2000 WCD) Jaqaru language: Red Book Jebero language: 2,000 to 3,000 (2000 W ...
UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger categories: ... List of revived languages; The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger categories: ... Other languages 1: 337 1 Including: Òpata, Soltec, and Papabucan. Only includes population 5 and older.
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. UNESCO defines four levels of language endangerment between "safe" (not endangered) and "extinct": [1] Vulnerable; Definitely endangered; Severely ...