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The Lost Language of Cranes is a 1991 British made-for-television drama film directed by Nigel Finch.It was adapted for television by Sean Mathias, based on the 1986 novel of the same name by David Leavitt.
The Lost Language of Cranes is a novel by David Leavitt, first published on September 26, 1986. A British TV film of the novel was made in 1991. The film was released on DVD in 2009.
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.
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 215 languages listed. 18 from Central Asia , 43 from East Asia , 20 from South Asia , 43 from Southeast Asia , 26 from Siberia and 70 from West Asia .
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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 ]
A language like Latin is not extinct in this sense, because it evolved into the modern Romance languages; it is impossible to state when Latin became extinct because there is a diachronic continuum (compare synchronic continuum) between ancestors Late Latin and Vulgar Latin on the one hand and descendants like Old French and Old Italian on the ...
Indonesian Sign Language: inl 6a 810,000 Scattered: Java and Bali, especially Jakarta. 28 Chinese, Min Nan: nan 8a 766,000 Bali, Java, Kalimantan, and Sumatra provinces: scattered. 29 Uab Meto: aoz 5 700,000 East Nusa Tenggara province: most of west Timor island. 30 Batak Mandailing: btm 6b 691,000