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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] The lists are organized by region.
[28] 26 March 2013: Yurok: Algic: California, United States: Archie Thompson [29] Under a process of revival. [30] by 2013 Sabüm: Mon–Khmer: Perak, Malaysia 2013 extinction is based on ISO changing it from living to extinct in 2013 2 October 2012: Cromarty dialect of Scots: Indo-European: Northern Scotland, United Kingdom: Bobby Hogg [31] 11 ...
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 ...
This is a list of lists of extinct languages. By group. By continent. List of extinct languages of Africa; List of extinct languages of Asia;
Eteocypriot writing, Amathous, Cyprus, 500–300 BC, Ashmolean Museum. An extinct language or dead language is a language with no living native speakers. [1] [2] A dormant language is a dead language that still serves as a symbol of ethnic identity to an ethnic group; these languages are often undergoing a process of revitalisation. [3]
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]
Language/dialect Family Date of extinction Date of revival Region Ethnic group Cornish: Indo-European: 1700s AD [126] 1900s Cornwall: Cornish people: Livonian: Uralic: 2 June 2013 [127] 2020 Livonian Coast: Livonians: Manx: Indo-European: 27 December 1974 [128] 1970s Isle of Man: Manx people
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". If no one can speak the language at all, it becomes an "extinct language".