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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.
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]
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 ]
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 ".
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 ...
Native American language revitalization (1 C, 134 P) Pages in category "Endangered languages of the United States" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Pages in category "Endangered indigenous languages of the Americas" The following 90 pages are in this category, out of 90 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 204 Indigenous, 2 Creole, 3 European, 4 Sign and 5 Pidgin languages listed. In total 218 languages.