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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 .
SIL Ethnologue (2005) lists 473 out of 6,909 living languages inventorised (6.8%) as "nearly extinct", indicating cases where "only a few elderly speakers are still living"; this figure dropped to 6.1% as of 2013.
Endangered languages of India (1 C, 147 P) ... Pages in category "Endangered languages of Asia" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
List of endangered languages in Asia; ... List of endangered languages in the United States This page was last edited on 17 November 2019, at 18:29 (UTC). ...
ELCat has found that 45% of all currently-spoken languages are endangered, based on the 3116 still-spoken endangered languages in ELCat compared to the 6861 still-living languages listed by Ethnologue. ELCat finds that 299 languages have fewer than 10 speakers and that 792 are "critically" or "severely" endangered.
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.
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An endangered language or moribund language is a language that is at risk of disappearing as its speakers die out or shift to speaking other languages. [1] Language loss occurs when the language has no more native speakers and becomes a " dead language ".