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In 1924, the Alaska Voter's Literacy Act was passed, which demanded native Alaskan citizens to pass an English literacy test before earning the right to vote. This act further decreased the use of Native Alaska languages. Today, many of the Native Alaskan languages are either on the brink of extinction or already extinct. [6]
Only two people remembered the language in 1961. after 1961: Xocó: unclassified: Sergipe, Alagoas, Brazil: Only a few people remembered the language in 1961 It is not clear if this is a single language. 1961: Northeastern Pomo: Pomoan(Hokan?) California, United States: 1960: Oriel dialect, Irish: Indo-European: Ireland: with the death of Annie ...
However, out of those 256 languages, 238 are in the realm of extinction. [2] That is, 92% of languages that are dying. The United States has the highest number of dying languages, 143 out of 219 languages, [3] then Canada with 75 dying out of its 94 languages, [4] and lastly, Greenland has the smallest number, nil of its two spoken languages. [5]
The Alaska Native Language Center believes that the common ancestral language of the Eskimoan languages and of Aleut divided into the Eskimoan and Aleut branches at least 4,000 years ago. [ 3 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The Eskimoan language family split into the Yupik and Inuit branches around 1,000 years ago. [ 6 ]
This is a list of extinct languages of North America, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant, most of them being languages of former Native American tribes. There are 196 Indigenous, 2 Creole, 3 European, 4 Sign and 5 Pidgin languages listed. In total 210 languages.
About 2.2% speak an Indo-European language other than Spanish or English at home, about 4.3% speak an Asian language at home and about 5.3% speak other languages at home. A total of 5.2% of Alaskans speak one of the state's 22 indigenous languages, known locally as "native languages".
Languages in Danger categories: This is a list of lists of extinct languages. By group. By continent. List of extinct languages of Africa; List of extinct languages ...
The sprachraum of Northern Athabaskan languages spans the interior of Alaska to the Hudson Bay in Canada and from the Arctic Circle to the Canadian-US border. [1] Languages in the group include Dane-zaa , Chipewyan , Babine-Witsuwitʼen , Carrier , and Slavey ;. [ 1 ]