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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.
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.
Extinct - "there are no speakers left; included in the Atlas if presumably extinct since the 1950s" The list below includes the findings from the third edition of Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010; formerly the Red Book of Endangered Languages), as well as the online edition of that publication, both published by UNESCO. [2]
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.
Cashinahua language: Red Book Chamicuro language: 2 (2000 Adelaar) 10 to 20 (2000 Adelaar). Chayahuita language: Red Book Cocama-Cocamilla language: 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 ...
This is a list of extinct languages of Asia, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers, and no spoken descendant. There are 216 languages listed. 18 from Central Asia, 44 from East Asia, 20 from South Asia, 42 from Southeast Asia, 26 from Siberia and 71 from West Asia.
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.
UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger categories: ... List of revived languages; The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire