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Language Speakers Locations Status Comments Ref Alune language [1]: Maluku Vulnerable Alune people Amahai language [1]: Maluku Critically endangered Ampibabo Lauje language [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] The lists are organized by region.
An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of ... The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger lists 88 endangered languages in Indonesia. ...
Pages in category "Endangered languages of Indonesia" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
An endangered language is a language that 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 a dead language . A language may be endangered in one area but show signs of revitalisation in another, as with the Irish language .
Many languages, for example some in Indonesia, have tens of thousands of speakers but are endangered because children are no longer learning them, and speakers are shifting to using the national language (e.g. Indonesian) in place of local languages. In contrast, a language with only 500 speakers might be considered very much alive if it is the ...
ELCat has found that 45% of all currently-spoken languages are endangered, based on the 3116 still-spoken endangered languages in ELCat compared to the 6861 still-living languages listed by Ethnologue. ELCat finds that 299 languages have fewer than 10 speakers and that 792 are "critically" or "severely" endangered.
Endangered languages of India (1 C, 147 P) Endangered languages of Indonesia (7 P) Endangered languages of Iran (1 C, 8 P) Endangered languages of Iraq (2 P) T.