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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.
UNESCO language endangerment classification. The UNESCO list has 6 categories of endangerment: [4] Extinct: There are no speakers left. The Atlas presumes extinction if there have been no known speakers since the 1950s. Critically endanger: The youngest speakers are grandparents and older, and they speak the language partially and infrequently.
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 ...
Yola, a sister language to English and Scots which was spoken in County Wexford, Ireland. Yola became extinct in 1998, but it has undergone an attempted revitalization and revival movement. The “Gabble Ing Yola” resource center for Yola materials claims there are approximately 140 speakers of the Yola language today. [24]
Extinct - "there are no speakers left; included in the Atlas if presumably extinct since the 1950s" 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.
In an effort to continue to send the message that people in Ontario need to stay home, premier Doug Ford posted a video message on Thursday morning to get the message out in 22 languages.
ELCat finds that 299 languages have fewer than 10 speakers and that 792 are "critically" or "severely" endangered. Importantly, contrary to the often-repeated claim that a language becomes extinct every two weeks, ELCat discovered that on average about one language each three months becomes extinct, about 4 per year. [2]
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;