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An endangered language is a language that 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 a dead language . A language may be endangered in one area but show signs of revitalisation in another, as with the Irish language .
SIL Ethnologue (2005) lists 473 out of 6,909 living languages inventorised (6.8%) as "nearly extinct", indicating cases where "only a few elderly speakers are still living"; this figure dropped to 6.1% as of 2013.
Endangered languages of India (1 C, 147 P) ... Pages in category "Endangered languages of Asia" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
List of endangered languages in Asia; ... List of endangered languages in the United States This page was last edited on 17 November 2019, at 18:29 (UTC). ...
Endangered languages of India (1 C, ... Endangered languages of the United States (1 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Endangered languages by country"
Language portal; Languages listed here must be classified as either vulnerable, definitely endangered, severely endangered or critically endangered in the Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, or be listed in another authoritative source as meeting the criteria set by the Atlas.
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... United States: 219 116 335 4.71 326,756,719
Saisiyat language: Severely endangered [1] Also spoken in: Taiwan. Formosan languages. xsy Salar language: Vulnerable [1] slr Samatao language: Critically endangered [1] ysd Samatu language: Critically endangered [1] Samei language: Severely endangered [1] smh Sangkong language: Vulnerable [1] sgk Santa language: Vulnerable [1] sce Sanyi ...