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"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.
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.
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 ...
Degree of endangerment is an evaluation assigned by UNESCO to the languages in the Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. [1] Evaluation is given according to nine criteria, the most important of which is the criterion of language transmission between generations. [2]
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]
Acoma-Laguna language [1] 10,670 (2007) Definitely endangered Keresan languages: Ahtna language [1] 80 Critically endangered Alabama language [1] 370 Definitely endangered Aleut language (Eastern) [1] 150 (2011) Critically endangered Number of speakers includes both Eastern and Western dialects. Aleut language (Western) [1] 150 (2011) Severely ...
A revived language is a language that at one point had no native speakers, but through revitalization efforts has regained native speakers. The most frequent reason for extinction is the marginalisation of local languages within a wider dominant nation state , which might at times amount to outright political oppression.
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.