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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]
There are languages in Indonesia reported with as many as two million native speakers alive now, but all of advancing age, with little or no transmission to the young. On the other hand, while there are only 30,000 Ladin speakers left, almost all children still learn it as their mother tongue; thus Ladin is not currently endangered.
3 Indonesia. 4 Melanesia. Toggle Melanesia subsection. 4.1 New Caledonia. ... This is a list of endangered languages of Oceania, based on the definitions used by UNESCO.
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 ...
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.
Pages in category "Lists of endangered languages" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. ... List of endangered languages in Indonesia; M.
Language portal; Languages listed here must be classified as either vulnerable, definitely endangered, severely endangered or critically endangered in the Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, or be listed in another authoritative source as meeting the criteria set by the Atlas.