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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 people, it becomes an extinct language . UNESCO defines four levels of language endangerment between "safe" (not endangered) and "extinct": [ 1 ]
This is a list of extinct languages of Africa, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant. There are 70 languages listed. There are 70 languages listed.
the language's spheres of use; locations, where they are spoken; the social, linguistic, economic, political, and geographic context of each endangered language. The information about each endangered language in ELCat comes from published sources and direct communications from individuals with specialized knowledge of specific endangered languages.
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 ]
Language Policies in Africa (PDF). Intergovernmental Conference on Language Policies in Africa (Revised ed.). Harare: UNESCO. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 May 2017. Cust, Robert Needham (1883). Modern Languages of Africa. Ellis, Stephen, ed. (1996). Africa Now: People, Policies, and Institutions. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS).
The people and their language first began to attract scholarly attention in the 1660s, coinciding with Dutch colonial efforts in the Cape of Good Hope and the resulting armed conflicts. [3] At the time, Khoemana was widely spoken throughout the coastal regions of South Africa.
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