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The Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS), developed by Lewis and Simons (2010), measures a language's status in terms of endangerment or development. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The table below shows the various levels on the scale:
The Ethnologue classifies Loke Tibetan as 6a "vigorous" on the EGIDS, denoting a situation in which the language is not losing speakers. However, the third edition of the Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger lists the language as "definitely endangered," indicating that the language is no longer learned as the first language in the home. [3]
Using the Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS), Ethnologue gives Yolmo a vitality rating of 6a 'Vigorous', but does not cite a source for this claim. [33] The vitality of the language varies depending on the location. In the Melamchi Valley area the language is spoken mostly by older adults.
A study by Coluzzi, Riget & Wang (2017) [7] on language use and attitudes across 4 different Mah Meri villages on Carey Island suggests that while Mah Meri still holds a strong and positive status in the community, there is a possibility of a complete language shift towards Malay in the future due to lesser usage of Mah Meri amongst the younger ...
In 2002, a sociolinguistic study found that Mugom speakers in diaspora consistently used their own language with each other, and that the language was being transmitted to children. [4] The Ethnologue has assigned EGIDS level 6a “vigorous” to the Mugom-Karmarong (ISO 639-3: muk ). [ 2 ]
Ulithian is the language spoken on Ulithi Atoll and neighboring ... Vitality According to Ethnologue, Ulithian is ranked at an EGIDS level of 5 which means that the ...
the languages' vitality (their prospects for continued use), such as number of speakers, trends in the number of speakers, intergenerational transmission; the language's spheres of use; locations, where they are spoken; the social, linguistic, economic, political, and geographic context of each endangered language.
The written language is currently at Stage IX, which on the EGIDS scale is a 'language [that] serves as a reminder of heritage identity for an ethnic community, but no one has more than symbolic proficiency'. [21] This applies to both the Tai Noi script used for secular literature and the Tua Tham script previously used for Buddhist texts. Only ...