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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.
These languages became extinct before 1950 and their ISO codes are not, or are no longer, maintained by SIL. Maintenance of additional languages extinct before 1950 is being gradually shifted from SIL to Linguist List. Africa. Meroitic language; America, North. Adai language; Aranama–Tamique language; Beothuk language; Cayuse language; Solano ...
A word list was collected by Johann Natterer in 1833. after 1832 Charrúa: Charruan languages: Entre Ríos Province and Uruguay: after 1832 Guenoa language: Charruan languages: Entre Ríos Province and Uruguay: after 1832: Aroaqui: Arawakan: Lower Rio Negro Brazil: A word list was collected by Johann Natterer in 1832. after 1832: Parawana ...
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; the language's spheres of use
UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger categories: This is a list of lists of extinct languages. By group. By continent. List of extinct languages of Africa ...
by name: List of language names (native names) by phylogenetic relation: List of language families (phylogenetic) by primary language family: List of Afro-Asiatic languages, List of Austronesian languages, List of Indo-European languages, List of Mongolic languages, List of Tungusic languages, List of Turkic languages, List of Uralic languages.
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 the aforementioned publication, both published by UNESCO. [2]
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [ 1 ] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world.