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Languages which became extinct before 1950 are the purview of Linguist List and are being gradually removed from Ethnologue; they are listed as an addendum to this page. There are 48 unclassified languages in the 25th edition of Ethnologue published in 2022.
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 ]
Since 2007, Ethnologue relies only on this standard, administered by SIL International, [16] to determine what is listed as a language. [5] In addition to choosing a primary name for a language, Ethnologue provides listings of other name(s) for the language and any dialects that are used by its speakers, government, foreigners and neighbors ...
World map of linguistic diversity index (linearly proportional to the shading intensity). Data is from the 18th edition of Ethnologue: Languages of the World.. Linguistic diversity index (LDI) may refer to either Greenberg's (language) Diversity Index [1] or the related Index of Linguistic Diversity (ILD) from Terralingua, which measures changes in the underlying LDI over time.
The following 660 language names are listed as primary names in Ethnologue 14 or 15, and some from Ethnologue 16 which were changed by 2012, so that when first listed here they were red links but did not duplicate red links on Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages/Language articles by ISO code. (There are others which already had redirects, and so ...
This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties , and so they are sometimes considered language families instead.
The Mobile Language Team in South Australia lists 46 languages or dialects on its website as of April 2021, including Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna, Kokatha, Lower Arrernte and Pitjantjatjara, to name a few of the many languages on which it is working. [3] Some of the languages being revived across the country are:
This is a list of all primary language names in the 18th edition (2015) of Ethnologue, including the 'smart' apostrophes used on their website, with links to the corresponding article in Wikipedia. The names or their spelling may differ from the primary ISO 639-3 names. Names may not be unique, in which case they're listed more than once.