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UNESCO flag. The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger was an online publication containing a comprehensive list of the world's endangered languages.It originally replaced the Red Book of Endangered Languages as a title in print after a brief period of overlap before being transferred to an online-only publication.
"Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger". UNESCO. EndangeredLanguages.com "Enduring Voices". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 2010-07-08. Ethnologue report of endangered languages. SIL International. 2005. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. Archived from the original on 2012-07-20.
Extinct - "there are no speakers left; included in the Atlas if presumably extinct since the 1950s" 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 that publication, both published by UNESCO. [2]
How UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger classifies languages. While there is no definite threshold for identifying a language as endangered, UNESCO's 2003 document entitled Language vitality and endangerment [16] outlines nine factors for determining language vitality: Intergenerational language transmission; Absolute number of ...
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. UNESCO defines four levels of language endangerment between "safe" (not endangered) and "extinct": [1] Vulnerable; Definitely endangered; Severely ...
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
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. UNESCO defines four levels of language endangerment between "safe" (not endangered) and "extinct": [1] Vulnerable; Definitely endangered; Severely ...
Extinct – "there are no speakers left; included in the Atlas if presumably extinct since the 1950s" 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 ...